Havana, February 8, 1953 — Five days have passed since an unprovoked, brutal raid on the Havana art studios of Cuban sculptor José Manuel Fidalgo Rodríguez, and the sitting Batista administration has yet to issue any public explanation for the attack. What is more troubling: the sculptor himself has not been seen since the incident, leaving the Cuban public growing more alarmed by the hour over his fate. This scathing public denunciation, originally penned by Fidel Castro Ruz for publication in *Bohemia* magazine, lays bare the full details of the regime’s crackdown on dissident expression through art.