Apparently, this priest did this a lot, and was later expelled from cuba, yet his letter to the newspaper was easily anti-Castro propoganda: '1 minute trial', '4 minute trial', immediate execution; in this case, fake news and 'Let's Power Thru History' clickbait.
The account from the 'Medal of Freedom' photographer Lopez is more compelling:
The Batista loyalist who was to be executed was army corporal Jose Rodriguez, known as “Pepe Caliente” (“Hot Pete”). Pepe had been tried in a war crimes trial where hundreds had gathered to testify as to his brutality.
According to photographer Lopez “The entire trial took two hours, (but it took only) one minute for three tribunal judges to condemn Pepe to death.”
... “I was standing there arguing with him, and in the background I could see eight or nine Barbudos waiting for all this to end so they could get on with their business and shoot this guy.” The prosecutor demanded that Lopez surrender his film and Lopez handed over a roll. “I kept the one with Pepe on it," he said.
Lopez died in 1986 of cancer, having remained with UPI until 1983.
Sure, and it's 'Pepe', but it ain't Q.
