They began launching raids on small army posts to obtain weaponry, and in January 1957 they overran the outpost at La Plata, treating any soldiers that they wounded but executing Chicho Osorio, the local mayoral, who was despised by the local peasants and who boasted of killing one of Castro's rebels
anayamba kupanga ziwembu zosiyanasiyana kwa magulu ankhondo an'gonoan'gono ndichoplinga chopeza zida zankhondo ndipo mu January chaka cha 1957 anagonjetsa ka gulu ka nkhondo komwe kanali ku La plata, kuthandiza asilikali onse omwe anawavulaza koma anapha Chicho Osrio, mtsogoleri wa delaro amene samakondedwa ndi anthua amdeleri komanso amene ankanyadira poyera kuti anapha mmodzi wa zigawenga  za Castro