Ten of the 20 deceased from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior in Venezuela were senior intelligence officials

Madrid/The Cuban regime revealed this Tuesday, three days after the United States intervention in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the names of the 20 agents of the Ministry of the Interior and the 12 of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) who died in the operation. “Victims of a new criminal act of aggression and state terrorism, perpetrated against the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the United States,” it indicates. Granmathe 32 deceased “lost their lives in combative actions and after fierce resistance.”

The agents, they affirm, “were carrying out missions on behalf of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, at the request of counterpart bodies of the South American country.” Among the deceased from the Interior there are two colonels (Humberto Alfonso Roca Sánchez67 years old, and Lázaro Gospel Rodríguez Rodríguez62), a lieutenant colonel (Orlando Osoria Lopez53), four older (Rodney Izquierdo Valdes51 years old; Ismael Terrero Ge49; Rubiel Diaz Cabrera53, and Hernán González Perera43) and three captains (Yoel Pérez Tabares48 years old; Adriel Adrián Socarrás Tamayo32, and Bismar Mora Aponteof 50). The FAR, for its part, lost only one command: Captain Adrian Perez Beades34 years old, and all the others were troops and a non-commissioned officer.

Regarding Roca Sánchez, the oldest and first on the published list, there is not a single detail about his studies, his professional career or his missions, which is an indication of a high level within the Intelligence apparatus. Something similar happens with the second, Rodríguez Rodríguez, and the third, Osoria López. It is striking that, of the 20 deaths from the Ministry of the Interior, half were officers.

The rest of the deceased, according to the Ministry of the Interior, are: Yorlenis Revé Cuza (38 years old), Alejandro Rodríguez Royo (35), Erwin Rosabal Avalos (35), Daniel Torralba Diaz (34), andAsmani Dominguez Cardero (33), Fernando Antonio Báez Hidalgo (26), Yandrys González Vega (45), Yordanys Marlonis Núñez (43), Yunior Estevez Samón (32), Yoandys Rojas Pérez (46), Giorki Verdecia García (30). From the FAR, the senior non-commissioned officer fell Suriel Godales Alarcón42 years old, and the private soldiers Adelkis Ayala Almenares (45), Alexander Noda Gutierrez (48), Ervis Martínez Herrera (52), Juan Carlos Guerrero Cisneros (55), Juan David Vargas Vaillant (54), Rafael Enrique Moreno Font (35), Luis Alberto Hidalgo Canals (57), Luis Manuel Jardines Castro (59) and Sandy Amita Lopez (37).

Some of those names had already emerged through family members’ publications on social networks. It is the case of Alejandro Rodríguezresident in the Boniato neighborhood of Santiago de Cuba, reported by independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada. According to testimonies collected by the reporter, the family received contradictory versions from the authorities about the location and transfer of the body. A relative reported that first they were told that the body was not found, then that it had been located and that they would be notified. According to this source, both Rodríguez Royo and his brother would be linked to State Security structures.

Likewise, there is Yunior Estévez, registered as “Yunio” by The Young Cubaborn in Palenquito Gil, a rural hamlet in Yateras, in Guantánamo. The medium, however, eliminated the post initial of its publication, where they said that the young man was the father of three children and a specialist in cryptography, at the “request of the family.”

The death of Rubiel Díaz Cabrera, a native of the Cauto Cristo municipality, province of Granma, and Luis Manuel Jardines Castro, known as little gardenfrom Cueto, Holguín, and who worked as a driver.

However, there are at least six deaths about whom information is reported on social networks and who do not appear on the list. For example, Fernando Baez Hidalgo26 years old, native of Río Cauto (Granma), linked to the Personal Security Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior and designated as Maduro’s direct escort. His name was mentioned in several coincidental publications. The first secretary of the Communist Party in Granma, Yudelkis Ortiz Barceló, acknowledged that six of the deceased were officials from that province, although without specifying their identities.

Another “disappeared” on the list is the man from Granma Erduin Rosabala native of La Rinconada, indicated in messages and publications as a member of the Venezuelan president’s first security ring. Nor does it appear Landy Osoria Lopeza native of Baire, Contramaestre, in Santiago de Cuba, repeatedly described as a member of the Cuban State Security and part of the team deployed in Caracas. Several publications place him among the deceased, even citing family addresses.

According to the US official, the assault on Caracas was a “furious gunfight” and the Cubans “suffered massive casualties.”

Also from Santiago, Yordenis Marloniswithout appearing on the official list. According to various publications, he was part of the direct protection device of the Venezuelan president and his wife. He was the son of parents from the town of Dos Caminos and left his wife and a young daughter in Cuba. Sources cited by The Scissors They point out that before his mission in Venezuela he had been a bodyguard of the former first secretary of the Party in that province, Lázaro Expósito Canto, a fact that reinforces his membership in high-level security forces. Officials from the Ministry of the Interior would have informed his family of the death, although without offering precise details.

Nothing is said, likewise, about Yoel Caraballo, native of Consolación del Sur (Pinar del Río), whose death would have been officially confirmed to his daughter by the Personal Security Directorate of that same ministry. His case stood out for being, in fact, one of the few in which direct and formal notification to a family member is mentioned. Nor from an agent called Yandriwhose last name is still unknown, whose death was announced by his cousin Moraima Rodríguez through social networks. In her message, the woman expressed pride in her “duty fulfilled” protecting Maduro, a statement that, beyond the tone, confirms the escort function attributed to the deceased.

These absences from the official list of deaths reinforce what Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, declared this Monday in an interview with CNN: that the number of dead Cubans publicly reported by the regime was probably lower than the real number. According to the US official, the assault on Caracas was a “furious gunfight” and the Cubans “suffered massive casualties.”