Legendary Rebel Commander!!
One of the last of the great rebel Commanders in Cuba's Revolutionary War and later at Cuba's smashing Bay of Pigs victory has died this week. Brigadier General Jose R. Hernandez passed away at age 95. He was instrumental from 1952 till 1959 in Cuba's stunning revolutionary victory over the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship and in April of 1961 he was the military leader that Fidel Castro first called on to help defend Revolutionary Cuba when the U.S.-backed Cuban-exile air-land-and-sea military attack known as the Bay of Pigs threatened to overthrow the vulnerable island's nascent Revolutionary government.
Always a favorite of Fidel Castro, both during and after the triumph of the Revolution, Jose R. Fernandez has been widely quoted by historians about what he said happened on January 12th, 1959 -- 12 days after ousting the Batista dictatorship: "Fidel summoned me and asked me what position I wanted in the new government, and he meant anything I would ask for." The modest General Fernandez served the Revolution faithfully...as a military leader and adviser but also as Vice President...for the next six decades. Next to Fidel Castro's death at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016, the death at age 95 this week of Jose R. Fernandez is the latest major update on the always struggling Cuban Revolution.
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