HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 5 (ACN) In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel evoked Major General Romárico Vidal Sotomayor García, Hero of the Republic, who died on September 1 at the age of 85 and whose ceremonial funeral and burial he attended Wednesday along with the leader of the Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz.
“Honor to whom honor is due,” the President wrote about the decorated combatant. “A man who was a chief and a brother, as his comrades recognized”.
Sotomayor, who joined the Rebel Army at 18 in the Sierra Maestra mountains under the orders of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, fulfilled various missions after the Triumph of the Revolution in the Ministries of the Armed Forces (FAR) and of the Interior (MININT) as deputy minister, head of