Montecristi Group

This group was organized during the Batista dictatorship and it devoted itself basically to collecting funds to help revolutionary activities that would lead to his removal from power. The Montecristi group was headed by Justo Carrillo Hernandez.

When the Revolution triumphed its leaders betrayed the Group, and the organization acquired a counterrevolutionary character, and then began to conspire.

This movement formed part of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (Frente Revolucionario Democratico) and the Anticommunist Civil Resistance (Resistencia Civica Anticomunista RCA) in 1962; in this last mentioned organization Ricardo Olmedo Moreno, national coordinator for Montecristi, occupied the position of national military coordinator. Among the counterrevolutionary activities that they tried to develop were three plans for attempts on the life of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, one of which was to take place on the stairway up to the University of Havana, during a political remembrance activity of the "13th of March" action.

They planned other actions in support of a supposed invasion of Cuba.