At the ceremony held at the Cuban Embassy in this nation, Ambassador Jorge Luis Cepero highlighted the importance of the leadership of Raul, who, along with his brother, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, occupied a vanguard position in defense of the revolutionary cause since he was a very young man.

Cepero highlighted the life of the Cuban leader, born on June 3, 1931, in Biran, today’s Holguin province, who participated in the attack on the Moncada Garrison, the Granma yacht expedition, and the guerrilla struggle in the Sierra Maestra mountain range as commander of the 2nd Eastern Front.

The ambassador also emphasized his significant achievements as Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) from the triumph of January 1959 to 2008, and subsequently, when he served for a decade, from that year, as President of the Councils of State and Ministers, positions he held with discipline, firmness, a sense of duty, and commitment to his people, always loyal to revolutionary ideals.

Cepero also referred to the current moves by the US government against Cuba, even with a false accusation against Army General Raul Castro, as a pretext for a military attack, like the one on January 3 in Venezuela, in which President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were kidnapped.

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