page_title: Rubén López Sabariego
hierarchical_section_title: Rubén López Sabariego
caption_attribution_description: In this picture he's still on Cuban soil, and we're motioning to him to get to our side so we can protect them, once on our side, we have to protect them with our lives, but if the cuban frontier brigade get them on their side, there's nothing we can do. Sad!!
context_page_description: Rubén López Sabariego was a Cuban bus driver working on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, whose mysterious disappearance and death there became a cause célèbre in Cuba.
  Naval Intelligence suspected Lopez was a Cuban agent, but had nevertheless continued to let him keep his job on the base.
  His body had been left to rot for over three weeks before it was returned to Cuba.
  When his body was returned, Cuban pathologists noting how extensively his bones had been broken, concluded he had been tortured.
context_section_description: Rubén López Sabariego (June 11, 1917 – September 30, 1961) was a Cuban bus driver working on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, whose mysterious disappearance and death there became a cause célèbre in Cuba.
  Naval Intelligence suspected Lopez was a Cuban agent, but had nevertheless continued to let him keep his job on the base.
  His body had been left to rot for over three weeks before it was returned to Cuba.
  When his body was returned, Cuban pathologists noting how extensively his bones had been broken, concluded he had been tortured.
caption: This 2004 picture shows the cliff just beyond the western boundary of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, where Captain Arthur J. Jackson initially tried to dispose of Ruben Lopez's body.
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