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Ramiro Valdés, One of the Last Men Who Sailed With Cuba’s Castro Has Died
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a commander of the Cuban Revolution, died in Havana at the age of ninety-four. He was one of twelve men who survived the 1956 Granma landing that launched Fidel Castro’s war and played a key role in building Cuba’s interior.
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