Sergio del Valle Jiménez

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Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 1986

Sergio del Valle Jiménez (born April 15, 1927 in Havana , † November 15, 2007 ibid) was a Cuban general and politician .

biography

After attending school, he studied medicine and then worked as a doctor in a hospital in Havana. In 1956 he joined a group of the revolutionary “ Movement of July 26th ” led by Fidel Castro against dictator Fulgencio Batista . In July 1957 he joined the rebel army against Batista's troops in eastern Cuba as a doctor and soldier. In August 1958 he was one of the selected fighters who marched from the eastern Cuban Sierra Maestra in two units led by Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto "Che" Guevara to the province of Las Villas in the western half of the island, where they were important for the course of the war until the end of December Won battles. Del Valle was Cienfuegos ′ Deputy Commander of Columna Invasora No. 2 "Antonio Maceo" and kept a war diary published later. At the end of the war he was promoted to the highest rank of Comandante by Castro .

After the dictator's flight and the victory of the revolution on January 1, 1959, he assumed several functions as a general within the armed forces ( Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias ). As head of operations of the General Staff, in December 1959 he was chairman of the military tribunal against Huber Matos, who had been accused of high treason by Castro . He was Chief of Staff during the United States- backed, unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles in mid-April 1961, as well as the following year during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, an extremely serious confrontation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union in the Cold War with Cuba at the center of the action and the high risk of the beginning of a nuclear war .

Del Valle, co-founder of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) , which was newly constituted as a unity party in 1965 , was also a member of the Central Committee (ZK) and the Politburo of the PCC. He was also a member of the National Assembly ( Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular ) and a member of the State Council .

In 1968 he was appointed to the Council of Ministers and initially served as Minister of the Interior . He was the successor to Ramiro Valdés , whom he had already supported as First Deputy Minister. When Valdés was returned to head of the Ministry of the Interior in 1979, Del Valle moved to the post of Minister of Health , which he held until 1986 and which was his last public office.

In April 2001 he received the honorary title "Hero of the Republic of Cuba".

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SURNAME Valle Jiménez, Sergio del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban politician and general
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2007
Place of death Havana