Abel Santamaría [SEP] place of death
Abel Santamaría
Abel Santamaría Cuadrado (20 October 1927 in Encrucijada, Las Villas, Cuba – 26 July 1953 in Santiago de Cuba) was a leader in the Cuban Revolutionary movement.
Biography.
Abel and his sister Haydée let revolutionaries including Fidel Castro use their tiny two-room apartment on the corner of O and 25th streets in Havana to plan the revolution. Abel and Haydee participated in the Moncada barracks assault in July 1953 that was supposed to start the revolution to overthrow Batista. After the failure of the attack
Abel Santamaría Airport
Abel Santamaría Airport () is an international airport serving Santa Clara, the capital city of the Villa Clara Province in Cuba. It was named after the Cuban revolutionary Abel Santamaría. On August 31, 2016, JetBlue Flight 387 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida landed at the airport to commence regular commercial flights between Fort Lauderdale and Santa Clara, the first commercial flight from the United States to Cuba in 54 years following the thaw in Cuba–United States relations.
Santa Clara Air Base.
The airport