Two more Cuban generals suddenly die in Havana

After a brief pause in high-ranking military officers dropping like flies in communist Cuba, the sudden deaths begin again. This time, two within 24 ours of each other.

Via CiberCuba (my translation):

Brigadier Generals Enrique Acevedo and Armando Quiñonez die in Havana

Two Cuban generals died in Havana on Thursday. No cause of death has been revealed for Enrique Acevedo Gonzalez and Armando Quiñonez Machado.

Reserve Brigadier General Acevedo was 79. According to a report in Granma he enlisted in the Rebel Army in 1957 when he was 14 and served under Che Guevara at first and then under Fidel Castro.

After the triumph of the revolution, he held different posts in the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) as Chief Commanding Officer and Chief of the Infantry Division for the Central and Western army, Chief Commanding Officer for the City of Havana, Section Chief for combat readiness for the Western Army, and was part of the FAR inspection office, among other things.

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In regards to Armando Quiñonez Machado, he was 78 and also a Reserve Brigadier General.

According to state-run media outlet Prensa Latina, he was born in Cienfuegos in 1944 and joined the struggle against the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship as a member of the July 26 Movement.

In 1959 he joined the Young Rebels Association and in 1964 enlisted in the FAR where he held several posts until he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1993. He served in the wars in Angola, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua.

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