Several contemporary documents reflect the boldness of Josué Pais, ensuring at each step of his short life; some reveal that many of those who knew him sensed he would not see the day when Cuba was free.
Frank, big brother, knew him from playing near his home in the General Banderas # 226; Josué was very impulsive to accept defeat or flight as an option.
When Frank learns of the death of his brother Josué, with his revolutionary intransigence and rudeness necessary -to ensure discipline and safety of many fighters secrecy- called his brother Augustín and forbade make unwise actions because the fallen It was one of the Movement and he would not allow to risk as head life peers for personal reasons.
The head of the underground in a letter to Fidel, he says: was "awful our week", "our Fernanina".
"(...) Here we lost three others, surprised when they were to perform a delicate job and preferred to die fighting rather than be deterred, including the smallest that has left a void in my chest and a pain the soul ".
The staff of the Rebel Army wrote to Frank Pais, a letter of condolence on July 21, 1957, which became ever read, by his death the 30 of that month, a victim of a betrayal and is slaughtered in the Alley wall, corner of San Germán.
In the letter signed by Fidel and Che, the revolutionary leadership and it noted that the people of Cuba each year to honor the martyrs in the place where fell.
And expressed the letter: "If fate allows us, together we will go one day to his grave to tell him and all that legion of Child Heroes, we fulfill the first part of this struggle and with the same strength and spirit sacrifice we have to finish the work of our generation, having them to them as chief prosecutors of our future actions ".
Santiago's revolutionary Gloria Stables, who knew very well compared with the independence fighters Antonio and Jose Maceo, because like they were brave to recklessness.
Isaac Frank País Garcia, excelled as a student leader, spearheading the Student Association and supporting the Latin American movement of the University Reformation.
In 1952, when there was the first coup of Fulgencio Batista, he concurred with other young people on the Moncada Barracks to order weapons in order to defend the government of Carlos Prio.
Frank began working as a teacher in 1954, at the College El Salvador, where he was noted for the passion Yea addressed the thought and work of José Martí.
In 1954, along with other young Cuban East created the Revolutionary (ANR)) National Action organization and in 1955, when the revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and his companions were later amnestied the assault on the Moncada Garrison, and the July 26 Movement conforms Frank asks income ANR members of the clandestine organization. And in hiding they know him under the pseudonym of David.
He immediately joined the leadership of the July 26 Movement in the former province of Oriente, and in 1956 was appointed Head of Action and Sabotage nationwide. Frank was in charge to lead the armed uprising of November 30, 1956 in Santiago de Cuba, in support of the landing of the yacht Granma, demonstrating their organizational capacity.
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