Rodolfo Ramírez Esquivel was a revolutionary, a member of the July 26th Movement, born in the Amancio Rodríguez municipality, Las Tunas province. At the Camagüey Professional School of Commerce, he got in touch with other young people, who, like him, expressed their dissatisfaction with the prevailing state of affairs. In this very center he began his activities against the tyranny of Fulgencio Batista. Back at the “Francisco” sugar mill, he establishes a business with the objective of hiding his revolutionary activity, which becomes a source of weapons and medicines for the revolutionary movement.

In the first months of 1956, he joined the M-26-7 and bought a bakery to help the movement. As a member of the M-26-7, he carries out sabotage, buys medicines, collects weapons, destroys telephone lines, sets fire to sugar cane fields, among other activities. He has to move to Camagüey due to his status as a revolutionary. There he maintains his participation in the Action and Sabotage group, together with Lester Delgado and Domingo López Loyola, Domingo was a young man of few words, he never says more than he deems necessary, however, he maintains a deep concern about the way in which the society is progressing, of which he felt he was a victim. Delving into the problems of the people, he suffers the needs of the different governments contrary to the popular desire, always aware of the needs of the working class, students and everything that does not represent powerful interests so, this young man feels the need to fight against the dictatorship.

On December 31th, 1957, they were part of an armed commando that intended to carry out a mission. On 25 de Julio Street, in La Vigía neighborhood, they are detected by patrol jeep No.8, manned by police and military from the Batista tyranny. The members decided to lure the vehicle to a secluded place in order to kill its occupants. The revolutionaries take their car to the corner of Lanceros and Fidel Céspedes streets and jump from it to draw the attention of their pursuers. In the shooting, Rodolfo was injured, who together with Domingo and Pedro Lester managed to enter Los Coquitos country house.

After crossing the country house and facing the critical situation, they move to Oscar Primelles Street next to the iron bridge, where Lester decides to stop a car that is approaching to transport Rodolfo, but the vehicle was the Patrol Car No.12, and after the encounter, Rodolfo Ramírez dies along with Domingo López.

Translated by: Aileen Álvarez García