Jonothan Kozol, pedagogo estadounidense y autor de Children of the Revolution, afirmó que los ataques terroristas estaban dirigidos a desestabilizar la Campaña de Alfabetización Cuban Library SystemA Brief Exploration of the Cuban Library System. Se afirma "The young teachers were all volunteers, receiving their parent's permission to go, and given a week's training before setting out. Ten of them were never to return, murdered by counter-revolutionaries operating in the mountains".
