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Five high-ranking Cuban generals dead in 10 days
NY Post ^
| 7-27-21
| Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Posted on 07/27/2021 4:48:50 PM PDT by dynachrome
Five high-ranking military leaders died in the span of just 10 days, according to the Cuban government — though it’s remained mum on the causes.
Brigadier General Armando Choy Rodriguez, 87, was the latest aging revolutionary to die, with Marta Abreu Central University announcing on Twitter that he passed away Monday.
Rodriguez was the founder of the “July 26 Movement” in Las Villas, and an author and historian, WPLG-TV in Miami said.
Also on Monday, Manuel Eduardo Lastres Pacheco, a former general who served under Argentine Ernesto “Che” Guevara during the revolution in the late 1950s, passed away, Cuban television confirmed.
Pacheco later served as commander of Cuba’s Eastern Army.
On Saturday, Gen. Ruben Martinez Puente, a 79-year-old general in Cuba’s army reserve and a controversial figure in the military also died.
Puente was the general who gave the order to shoot down a civilian plane from the Cuban exile group “Brothers to the Rescue” in 1996 — bringing tensions with the US to a fever pitch.
Marcelo Verdecia Perdomo, another Army Reserve brigadier general and a former Castro bodyguard, died on July 20, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said.
Finally, Agustin Pena Porres, former commander of the Western Army and a member of Cuba’s Communist Central Committee, passed away on July 17, WPLG said.
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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba; generals; patriavvida; patriayvida
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hmmm. Purge? Covid?
To: dynachrome
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/27/2021 4:54:35 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/27/2021 4:54:52 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(biden is not my president )
To: butlerweave
Old age mostly, it looks like, but who knows if some younger ones are impatient.
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posted on
07/27/2021 4:55:45 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: dynachrome
A series of unrelated incidences.
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posted on
07/27/2021 4:56:33 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
To: dynachrome
Yes. All the above are collected under the header: Covid.
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posted on
07/27/2021 4:56:54 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: dynachrome
To quote Ilhan Omar, ‘some people did something...”
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posted on
07/27/2021 4:57:44 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:03:02 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:05:09 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:09:00 PM PDT
by
freebird5850
(The only way I can treat this fever....More cowbell!)
To: dynachrome
Oh yoo hoo..over here 90 miles away! We have some generals too!😎
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:09:29 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: dynachrome
That’s a gosh darn shame.
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:10:14 PM PDT
by
firebrand
( )
To: dynachrome
Accidentally killed cleaning their guns.
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:10:18 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
To: dynachrome
Probably Joseph Stolen’s CIA at work, trying to help out the “democratically elected” government
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:10:29 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(I'm old enough to remember metal toys in Cracker-Jacks.)
To: dynachrome
It seems they were a bit passed their prime.
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:11:48 PM PDT
by
sitetest
(Professional patient; no longer mostly dead.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:12:36 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: dynachrome
Are there any blueberries or strawberries ?
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:13:08 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
To: butlerweave
To: Bonemaker
Hard to pine for old dead communist generals.
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posted on
07/27/2021 5:16:37 PM PDT
by
SisterK
(Maranatha)
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