AREQUIPA, Peru – Juan Antonio Hernández Hernández, a reserve brigadier general of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Cuba, died on Monday, according to the official press of the Castro regime.
A report from the Cuban Television News indicates that Hernández Hernández joined the process initiated by the late dictator Fidel Castro in his early youth, forming part of the Association of Young Rebels.
After participating in the literacy campaign in 1961 and being called up for General Military Service, he used that path to begin a career in the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), where he initially served in various roles and achieved a position as artillery platoon leader.
In 1973, he was appointed head of the Transport and Armament Section in Camagüey once the Youth Labour Army (EJT) was established and 15 years later he obtained command of the Political Section of that entity. By 1994, he was already chief of staff of the EJT.
The death of Juan Antonio Hernández Hernández is the third high-profile death within the Cuban regime and particularly within the FAR that has come to light in the last month.
Last week, the brigadier general Juan Israel Cervantes Tablada, a regime official, also died, 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.
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.
