SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The brigadier general Juan Israel Cervantes Tablada, a regime official, died on Wednesday, according to official press reports. At the time of his death, he was the general director of the Union of Military Industries (UIM).
Cervantes Tablada was one of the regime’s most trusted men. In the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), he graduated as an engineer specializing in tanks and transportation.
He was named Brigadier General for the “capacity shown,” the sources said. journalists of the National News and became head of the Directorate of Tanks and Transportation of the MINFAR.
There he was in charge of projects related to the modernization of the material war Cuban.
Because of his loyalty to the Castro leadership, in 2009 he was appointed general director of the Union of Military Industries, the island’s state-owned military-industrial conglomerate, which is responsible for repairing the weapons and technology of the land, sea and air units of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, and which has more than 230 factories and companies.
In this strategic sector, according to state media, “it contributed to the materialization of the country’s projects, the maintenance of the vitality of the national electric energy system, the support to the Institute of Hydraulic Resources and the Ministries of Public Health, the Food Industry, Transport and Agriculture, as well as other branches of the national economy.”
His body will be cremated and his ashes deposited on Friday, September 13, in the Pantheon of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
This year, the death of Leonardo Ramón Andollo Valdés, a major general in the Cuban reserve, associated with operations in Venezuela during the government of Hugo Chávez, was also confirmed.
Andollo Valdés joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces through the National Revolutionary Militias, where he held various responsibilities and became second chief of the General Staff and head of the Operations Directorate.
In 2012, he was charged before the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office for having supervised meetings of the military high command Venezuelan. The complaint was supported by photos, recordings and videos showing the Cuban officer in those meetings.
Antonio Rivero, a retired Venezuelan general, then claimed that this was a “clear interference and violation of the sovereignty” of his country.
