Tina Bazooka, Dominican heroine who died at age 16 facing the US invasion 1965 to the Dominican Republic.

How to forget Tina, popularly known as LA BAZOOKERA BAZUCA or a sixteen-year; caliche color thin, with scars of bullets and knives in his face half-moon; Tina Bazooka, since 24 April, was preparing Molotov cocktails in their backyards and alleys and neighborhoods Borojol Guachupita; then he looked full of Molotov cocktails gangorra tied with thread in her fragile waist and shoulders, in the vicinity of the Duarte Bridge.

Then became famous in the Command POASI when dressed in olive green military boots, leaving a G-3 rifle, a bazooka on his shoulder and a jeep that she and two frogmen had taken them clean shot soldiers US.

Tina Bazooka was a frontline fighter in the northern part of the city of Santo Domingo, where he was one of the heroes in the battles of 25, 26, 27, 29 and 30 April.

On 1 May when US troops were advancing forming the cordon that divided the city of Santo Domingo in two and the desertion of military constitutionalists were encouraged from Radio San Isidro, the station of the military anti village; encouraging him to drop back to their barracks, as they say the revolution was led by Castro Communists.

Then is where most civilians fighting men and women are divided into command, led by politicians of the participating parties: PRD, PSP, PCD, MPD AND 1J4; advised by frogmen, Elite Corps of the Navy, led by Captain Ramon Montes Arache.

In these neighborhoods also had defections constitutional civilians, but Nina Bazooka, I do not abandon the fight, he was in all the battles and skirmishes giving all out. From here pal Heaven! He said.

In the days of heavy fighting in May especially on days 1, 14,15 and 16, when the manhunt called Operation Clean in the slums of the city started; where they killed more than six thousand civilians, not combatants. There was this Tina Bazooka.

Like the bombing of the city by troops of US intervention on 15 and 16 June, where he tried to take New Town, with all kinds of weapons and was unable because of the constitutionalists soldiers and young men sexes of many without names, without education and without any political party commands. As was the case with Bazooka Tina.

And at the Military Academy on April 24, in New Town, Tina Bazooka, it was an exemplary student.

It tells the instructor, Sagrada Bujosa, the book Women in April of journalists Margarita Cordero, the following:

Tina was POASI bazookera the command, and when they try to say: these are the companions that you're going to instruct, I remember her, but the woman young finished, village, full of scars on his face. He continues ¨ ...... this was a woman who impressed. He was always dressed in olive green.

Then interacted and she told me about the fighting in the northern part of such a natural way, its wounded in the fighting in the northern part, with the same simplicity with which people make the daily work in a house. It was the people who most assimilated instructions, more skilled people, and was the one who was different; she was the woman of the people, which represented the people there.

It was the woman who had fought, because most most do not, all that was including me instructor, none of the companions who were under my command had participated in combat. Only Tina.

Brunilda it Amaral told in the book Women of April the journalist Margarita Cordero, the following: I remember Tina said: ¨ I am very gross, I am a woman of the docks. Brutisima I am a woman, but I have to learn; then I have to pay attention twice.

I do not know, but such women, this woman, this anonymous, that they may not appear in any of the annals of many stories that have been written here about women and their participation in this or that fact, these women were precisely which they dignified the role of women in the war in April.

After the Revolution ended, a hunt was initiated against all without names, who fought in the revolution, Bazooka Tina, you play bad luck.

They butchered, desecrated his body and threw him from the Duarte bridge to the Ozama River.

On the bridge it with arms in hands defended with great courage and bravery on 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 April 1965.

Let us honor his memory, which is memory of the thousands of shirtless and shirtless as always. Orphans and orphans who fight without ideologies, without parties.

Only in order to defend the supreme sovereignty of the Republic. Those who do not have names or surnames; no house, no land, no education.

Those below. The unemployed, and health; The homeless men and women.