The Humboldt 7 massacre was the extrajudicial killing of four armed Directorio Revolucionario (DR) members by the Havana police on 20 April 1957. The police, led by Lt. Colonel Esteban Ventura Novo, entered apartment 201 of Humboldt 7, a residential building, where the DRE members were hiding. The four men who were killed during the incident had taken part in the Havana Presidential Palace attack and the seizure of the Radio Reloj station at the Radiocentro CMQ Building.
(L to R) Fructuoso Rodriguez, Joe Westbrook, Faure Chomon, Juan Pedro Carbó, Mexico City, 1956.
A photograph of Lt. Colonel Esteban Ventura Novo.
Havana police at the door of apartment 201. The policeman with the glasses appears to be Lt. Colonel Esteban Ventura Novo.
Havana policemen at Humboldt 7 after the shooting.
The Radiocentro CMQ Building complex is a former radio and television production facility and office building at the intersection of Calle L and La Rampa in El Vedado, Cuba. It was modeled after Raymond Hood's 1933 Rockefeller Center in New York City. With 1,650 seats, the theater first opened on December 23, 1947, under the name Teatro Warner Radiocentro, it was owned by brothers Goar and Abel Mestre. Today the building serves as the headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT).
Radiocentro CMQ Building
Building characteristics advertisement. ca 1948
Edificio Radiocentro CMQ. Television studios entrance on Calle M.
Radiocentro CMQ Building floor plan showing Cinerama theater, domino frame structure office building and radio and television studios.
