Editor Pacheco

Abelardo Pacheco, editor of Voz del Pueblo, small but vociferous Nationalist (antiGovernment) Havana weekly, has lately been shocking conservative Cubans by boldly printing what others dare only think about Cuba's horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common; etc., etc. (TIME, March 11, et seq.). One night last week Editor Pacheco found himself in a position to write no more. A curtained automobile stopped in front of his home in Cerro (Havana suburb). Editor Pacheco was standing on the sidewalk. Out of the automobile burst a stream of fire and bullets, nine of which tore through Editor Pacheco's middle.

Said Havana's rigorous Chief of Police, Major Trujillo:

"We have absolutely no clue to the assassins. I have just been to the hospital and I am told that Senor Pacheco will not regain consciousness."

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