Today 40 years of the death in combat of the group 'The log'

Said general Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez at 4: 00 in the afternoon the silence of the cave was filled with rumors, and that a few hours before, when the morning became adults, the city was taken at the point of bayonets and soldiers were everywhere, among the passengers of the bus, the courtyards of the houses, the reedbeds, the venduteras of the market, schools and handspan to handspan at University Primada.

The morning of January 12, 1972, now 40 years ago, Dominicans woke up in the middle of a Web of rumors and quartering of troops. From first hours, was already known that Amaury German Aristy, head of the revolutionary group the log, was surrounded in a cave near kilometer 14 of the autopista Las Americas by more than two thousand troops of the armed forces and national police.

Sacred Bujosa, the widow of Germán Aristy, claims that the men of the lineage of her husband never die, as wrote the poet Manuel of the u000aCabral that "there are men who are rising while more his low coffin", and the historian Euclides Gutierrez Felix, exceptional witness of the time and protagonist of political struggles contempóraneas, defines the event as "a sacrifice for the country that will never be futile".

The fact that four young men fell shot, but not before face for twelve hours and produce several low to the more heavy artillery of the national police and light weapons in the hands of some 2,500 troops of the armed forces and security agencies, in no way could be useless. And Moreover, when alone, Germán Aristy and Virgilio Perez Perdomo, produce all the casualties, as his teammates, Bienvenido Leal Prandy (the kick that) and Ulises Cerón Polanco, were killed while they could use their weapons before the sunrise. "Attacked them by land and air in an unequal struggle and without precedent in the life of the country", said Gutiérrez Félix.

The u000athen Secretary of the armed forces, contralmirante Ramon Emilio Jimenez, declared the area of combat as a "war zone" and deployed the 2,500 men under arms. The balance fatal added 12 dead and 7 wounded.

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