MIAMI, United States. – Brigadier General (r) Marcos Antonio Hernández Alcaraz died this Monday in Havana at the age of 81, according to the information disseminated by the Ministry of the Interior (MININT). During five decades dedicated to the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the MININT, the soldier received multiple decorations from the island’s regime.
Hernández Alcaraz joined the FAR in 1964 as a soldier. Throughout his career he carried out two internationalist missions in the People’s Republic of Angola.
Starting in 1989, he assumed various positions in the MININT, including head of the Province and the Directorates of Counterintelligence and Penitentiary Establishments. He was founder of the Communist Party of Cuba and was awarded numerous distinctions throughout his career, such as the 20th Anniversary of Moncada Commemorative Medal, the Second Class Internationalist Combatant and the Ignacio Agramonte, among others.
According to the MININT, the details of his funeral services will be announced later.
Hernández Alcaraz is probably the last general of the Cuban regime to die in 2024.
Last September 24 died Army Corps General Ramon Espinosa Martinfirst vice minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and one of the trusted men of the Castro leadership.
A little more than a week before, on September 17, Juan Antonio Hernández Hernández, Brigadier General of the FAR reserve, also died.
Just another week before, Brigadier General Juan Israel Cervantes Tablada had also died. At the time of his death, the official was serving as general director of the Union of Military Industries (UIM).
