Ramiro Valdés

Ramiro Valdés Menéndez ( born April 28, 1932 in Artemisa, Cuba ) is a Cuban politician and military.

Life

At the age of 21, he participated in the organized by Fidel Castro raid in part on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, which he was sentenced to a prison term, which he took up with Castro on the Isla de Pinos. In May 1955 he was granted amnesty along with the other political prisoners of the Batista government. He then emigrated to Mexico, where he was trained together with other revolutionaries for the guerrilla struggle and on 2 December 1956 with the yacht Granma with 82 comrades returned to Cuba to initiate the military struggle for the overthrow of Batista in which he initially fought under the command of Fidel and later by Che Guevara.

1961 Ramiro Valdés with the formation of the Ministry of Interior and the Minister again in 1979. Valdés is responsible for the construction of the Directorate-General for education, which developed into one of the world's leading intelligence services.

Valdés also served as First Vice- Minister of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias ( Ministry of Defence ) and as a Vice President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers. For the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC ), he became a deputy of the Cuban National Assembly. In addition to numerous other awards, he was determined, among other things to Comandante de la Revolución and hero of Cuba.

Currently, Ramiro Valdés is part of the government of Raúl Castro as Vice President of the Council of Ministers, also a member of the Political Bureau of the PCC and the Council of State of Cuba. In a cabinet reshuffle in January 2011, Valdés was from the management of the Ministry of Communications, but has since then as a sort of super-minister on the supervision of the construction, the Industry and the Ministry of Communications.