Juan Almeida Bosque

Juan Almeida Bosque ( born February 17, 1927 in Havana, Cuba, † September 11, 2009 ) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician. During and after the Cuban revolution in 1959, he was one of the leaders in the state and the Party of Cuba.

Life and work

July 26, 1953 Almeida took part in the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, which was led by Fidel Castro. The entire test failed. Juan Almeida was sentenced to a long prison term, but came after two years under a general amnesty released in May 1955. After that, he was a founding member of the " 26th of July Movement " on 12 June 1955, and thus the driving force of the revolution against the dictator Batista in Cuba.

Almeida was like some other Moncadistas with Fidel and Raúl Castro in July 1955, after Mexico into exile, where they planned the armed expedition back to Cuba and prepared. There she also met Ernesto " Che" Guevara. On November 25, 1956 broke 82 revolutionaries - including Juan Almeida - Tuxpan (Mexico) with the yacht " Granma " to Cuba, where they arrived on 2 December 1956. After over two years of guerrilla warfare, the dictator Batista fled finally on 1 January 1959 from Cuba. In the course of the revolution Almeida was charged in February 1958 in the rank of Commander of the Rebel Army and used as the head of the Third Front.

After the triumph of the revolution in 1959, he held various offices: including as chief of the Air Force of Cuba, Vice Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, Vice- President of the State Council, member of the Central Committee (CC ) of the Communist Party of Cuba (KPK ) and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the KPK. After Fidel and Raúl Castro, as well as the two who died Comandantes Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos Juan Almeida was one of the most popular figures of the Cuban Revolution.

On the evening of September 11, 2009 Almeida died 82 years old in Havana on a cardiovascular arrest. His remains were interred Baños in the Sierra Maestra in the mausoleum of the martyrs of the Third Front at Cruce de los.

In June 2013, a permanent wall portrait of Almeida was mounted on a facade of the Teatro Heredia on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks at Revolution Square in Santiago de Cuba. It is accompanied the quote attributed to him " aquí no se bark nadie " ( here there is no one ) from the guerrilla war. Similarly, the two heroes of the revolution Guevara and Cienfuegos had been honored with portraits on facades at Revolution Square in Havana before.

Honors

  • Hero of the Republic of Cuba (1998)
  • Máximo Gómez - Medal of the Republic of Cuba ( 1998)

Publications

  • Welcome address to the Tenth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. ( in: . minutes of the negotiations of the Tenth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Volume I. Dietz Verlag Berlin [ DDR ] 1981)
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