Cuba purge update: Another general in military junta dies, the EIGHTH or NINTH in the past month (losing count ! ) – Babalú Blog
From our Bureau of Epic Purges and Suddenly-Overcrowded Mausoleums
Santa Mierda de los perros de San Lazaro! Another top Castronoid military official bites the dust and is instantly cremated. And so many generals and colonels have died that news media seem to have lost count. According to some sources, this brings the total of deaths in the top ranks to eight. According to others, the number is nine. All in a single month….and most of them clustered in a two week period.
As Hamlet might say, there’s something rotten in the kingdom of Castrogonia. The top brass — the men who really run the country — is quickly being replaced by a younger generation. Granted, these military men were all in their 70’s and , 80’s. But this sort of sudden mass extinction does smell like a purge.
Missing: Pedro Gerardo Gutiérrez Santos
Loosely translated from 14yMedio:
Reserve brigadier general, Arnoldo Ferrer Martínez, died in Cuba at the age of 81, as reported on Monday by the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) in a note broadcast on national television. With the death of Ferrer Martínez, there are eight high-ranking soldiers who have died on the island in less than a month without the cause of death being specified in any of the cases.
Ferrer Martínez was a combatant in column number 1 under the command of Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra and, together with his brother Harold Ferrer Martínez, participated in various actions of the Rebel Army. He was also a member of the Third Front Doctor Mario Muñoz under the orders of Juan Almeida Bosque until 1959.
After that year, he held responsibilities within the FAR as tank company chief, battalion and infantry division chief, and head of the Territorial Troop Militia preparation center.
Ferrer Martínez, who was a member of the Communist Party of Cuba, was in command of the General Staff of the province of Havana and Pinar del Río and was sent to fight in Angola. According to the Granma newspaper, he was also the second chief of staff of the Western Army.
“His body was cremated and his ashes deposited in the veterans’ pantheon of the Colón Necropolis where they will remain until their subsequent transfer to the Mario Muñoz Third Front mausoleum in the province of Santiago de Cuba,” the statement details.
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