Quintín Bandera

[4] Minor protests had already taken place the year before, but in August 1906 a band led by Pino Guerra started a more serious uprising in Pinar del Río Province.

[7] One general suspected of participating was José Miguel Gómez, later president of Cuba, who was quickly arrested and jailed.

Bandera had lost his office and broke into the Cuban senate, but instead of being made chief of police, as he demanded, he was appointed "parliamentary doorkeeper."

[2] He was surrounded by troops led by General Freyre Andrade,[4] and a group of Rural Guards stormed the farm.

Most of the insurgents managed to slip away, leaving only Bandera and two of his comrades:[2] shot multiple times, according to reports, he continued "wielding his machete until the foe had cut him to pieces.