Brigadier General José Alberto Yanes Díaz, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and head of the Political Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), died today Friday in Havana. He was 69 years old.
During his nearly fifty years in the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Far) and the MININT, Yanes held various positions: Second Chief of the Political Directorate of the Far, First Second Chief of the Political Directorate of the MININT, and Deputy Chief of the Executive Secretariat of the Defense and National Security Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, among others. From 1979 to 1981 he carried out an internationalist mission in Angola.
During his military career he received different orders and decorations.
