MIAMI, United States. – This Thursday in Havana, at the age of 69, Brigadier General José Alberto Yanes Díaz, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), head of the Political Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) and one of the repressors of the demonstrators of the July 11 and 12, 2021.
In accordance with the obituary published by the MININTYanes Díaz accumulated almost 50 years of service in the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the MININT, held various positions of responsibility, including deputy chief of the FAR Political Directorate, first deputy chief of the MININT Political Directorate, as well as deputy head of the Executive Secretariat of the Commission for Defense and National Security of the Central Committee of the PCC.
For its part, the website Cuban repressors describes Yanes Díaz as a “violent repressor” against opponents and critics of the regime.
Since the historic demonstrations of July 11 and 12, 2021, around twenty high-ranking FAR and MININT officials, especially generals, have died.
the last of them it was Division General Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, executive president of the Business Administration Group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (GAESA) and former son-in-law of Raúl Castro.
Before him they died Brigadier General Enrique Acevedo Gonzálezon June 23, 2022; Major General Humberto Francis Pardo, at the end of December 2021; Y Reserve Brigadier General Manuel Fernández Falcónon October 20, 2021.
On October 15 of last year he also passed away Manuel de Jesús Rey Soberón, Brigadier General of the Reserve due to complications from COVID-19, according to official media.
On September 30, another Brigadier General, the active-duty soldier, died, also from COVID-19. Diego Cobas Sanzmember of the Communist Party and head of the FAR’s Combative Preparation Directorate.
Five days earlier, on September 25, Colonel Eladio Julián Fernández Cívico, director of the Geocuba business group, also died of the coronavirus. The same thing happened with Reserve Brigadier General Hiraldo Antonio Mora Orozco, whose death from COVID-19 was reported by the regime’s media on September 16.
In September, the death of retired FAR Colonel Eduardo Morejón Estévez, 82, a veteran of Cuban military interventions in Asia and Africa, accused of torturing US prisoners of war in Vietnam, was also reported. The official press did not report the news.
Previously, Brigadier Generals Arnoldo Ferrer Martínez, Armando Choy Rodríguez and Manuel Eduardo Lastres also died in a period of just over two months; Reserve Colonel Santiago Lorenzo Hernández Cáceres, Rebel Army combatant Pedro Gerardo Gutiérrez Santos, Division General Rubén Martínez Puentes and General Agustín Peña, head of the Cuban Eastern Army.
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