SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The colonel Lázaro Delgado Chaple, second in command of the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Foreigners (DIIE) of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), died a few days ago from complications of the Oropouche virus, according to Cuban officials close to the repressor.
Orestes Hernández Hernández, who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), reported the death on Friday, adding that Delgado was “a victim of complications derived from the Oropouche“.
For his part, Miguel Ángel Moreno Carpio, Cuban consul in Mexico City, expressed his regret and wrote that the colonel was “always ready to collaborate with the Consulate’s requests.” “Every time we required a clear, clean, concise response with solutions, without any hesitation of any kind, we had Lázaro’s phone number at hand.”
No further details have been released regarding Delgado’s death.
According to Hernández Hernández, the deceased colonel was part of the team that worked from the airport to secure President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba.
Later, he was head of the remodeling work of the Museum of the Denunciation at 5th and 14th (Playa).
Cuban repressor
According to the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC), the repressor Delgado would become part of the database of Cuban Repressors for its role in the expatriation and banishment of activists, artists, independent journalists and citizens critical of the regime.
Colonel Delgado Chaple is believed to have participated in this escalation of forced exiles of leading Cuban activists.
The news of his death contradicts the Cuban regime’s claims that there were no deaths from the diseasesomething that Dr. Miguel Ángel Ruano, president of the Free Cuban Medical Guild, had already warned about.
The expert had explained that relapses and deaths in patients with the Oropouche virus may be due, fundamentally, to poor treatment and the lack of drugs to treat the conditions.
“In this period there is no absence of deceasedthere is the presence of deaths due to acute febrile syndrome of unspecified cause or due to inadequate management in treatments that lead to death and that are handled in the death certificates as ‘fever of unknown cause’, which was not conclusive for diagnosis and therefore, are not closed like Oropuche,” he said.
Generals and colonels…
Also this month passed away the brigadier general Juan Israel Cervantes Tablada. To moment At the time of his death, he was serving as 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.
Previously, Major General Romárico Vidal Sotomayor García had died, having been sanctioned by the US for his role in the repression of the social outbreak of July 11, 2021.
