MIAMI, United States.- Reserve Division General Antonio Enrique Lussón Batle died in Cuba at the age of 92 on Tuesday, the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) reported.
According to a review published this Wednesday by the official newspaper Granma, Lussón Batle, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, joined the FAR in 1957, forming part of column No. 9 José Tey, commanded by René Ramos Latour. A year later, in April 1958, he joined the Frank País Second Eastern Front.
In August of that same year he was promoted to the rank of Commander of the Rebel Army, and appointed Chief of Column No. 17 Abel Santamaría. In the FAR he was Second Chief of the Managua Military Camp, Chief of the Operations Section of the Western Army, Chief of the Operations Directorate of the General Staff, Chief of the Western Independent Corps, Second Chief of the FAR Inspection Body, and between 2000 and 2008, Head of the FAR Special Troops Headquarters.
Reserve Division General Antonio Enrique Lussón Batle “performed, on two occasions, an internationalist mission in the Republic of Angola” and was also Minister of Transportation, First Vice President of the National Institute of the State Reserve, and Vice President of the Council of Ministers.
According to official information, his body will be cremated and his ashes will be exposed this Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., in the Veterans Pantheon of the Colon Necropolis, where they will remain until their later death. Transfer to the Frank País Second Eastern Front Mausoleum, in the province of Santiago de Cuba.
On August 20, Brigadier General José Alberto Yanes Díaz, a 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 on the island. With him and Lussón Batle they add 25 senior Cuban military deceased in the country after the anti-government protests on July 11, 2021. At least 17 were generals.
One of the most notorious deaths this year, perhaps suddenly, was that of Division General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja on July 1.
López-Calleja, in addition to his military rank, held the positions of executive president of the Business Administration Group (GAESA), member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and Deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power for the municipality of Villa Clara. of Remedies.
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