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Military High Command

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Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) Minister, FAR... Army Gen. Raul Castro Ruz

 

First Vice Minister (Chief, General Staff)... Army Corps General (Lt. General) Alvaro Lopez Miera

 

Deputy Minister, FAR...Army Corps General (Lt. General) Julio Casas Regueiro

 

Deputy Minister (Chief, Air/Air Defense Forces)... Colonel Pedro J. Mendiondo Gomez

 

Deputy Minister (Chief, Cuban Rev. Navy (MGR))... R. Adm. Pedro Miguel Perez Betancourt

 

 

Chief of Staff, FAR (Deputy Chief, General Staff)...Brig. Gen. Roberto Milian Vega

 

 

Chief of Staff, Civil Defense (FAR)... Colonel Glaudis Arturo Borges Ruiz

 

 

Chief, Youth Labor Army (FAR)...Div. Gen. Rigoberto Garcia Fernandez

 

General Staff Chief, Engineer Directorate (General Staff)....Brig. Gen. Leonardo Ramon Andollo Valdez Chief, Counter-Intelligence (GS)....Div. Gen. Felix Baranda Columbie Chief, Intelligence Directorate (GS)....Lt. Gen. Jesus Bermudez Cutino Chief, Combat Training Directorate (GS)...Brig. Gen. Pedro Garcia Pelaez Chief, Operations Directorate (GS)...? Chief, Armored Tanks and Transportation (GS/FAR???)...Lt. Gen. Guillermo Pardo Guerra

 

 

Armies

Commander, Western Army...Army Corps General (Lt. General) Leopoldo Cintra Frias

 

Commander, Eastern Army....Army Corps General (Lt. General) Ramon Espinosa Martin

 

Deputy-Commander, Eastern Army...Brig. General Jose Solar Hernandez [AP - 01/10/02]

 

Commander, Central Army...Army Corps General (Lt. General) Joaquin Quinta Sola

 

Troops

Commander, Territorial Militia Troops... Lt. General Raul Menendez Tomassevich (died - 08/16/01)

 

Commander, Armed Forces Special Troops...Lt. General Antonio Buzon Batle [Tele Rebelde - 03/12/01] Commander, Prevention Troops...Col. Ricardo Veranes Carrion

 

 

Ministry of Interior

Minister....Army Corps General (Lt. General) Abelardo Colome Ibarra

 

Commander, Special Troops...Lt. Col. Roberto Marquez Orozco Border Guard (Subordination Ministry of Interior) Commander, Territorial Border Guard (TGF)...Brig. Gen. Lazaro Roman Rodriguez

 

Chief of GS...Lt. General Ulises Rosales del Toro (Minister of Sugar --1997)

Notes

Keesing's Worldwide Directory of Defense Authorities. 1998. Washington, D.C.: Keesing's Worldwide.

"Principales Cargos," Ministerio de las Furerzas Armadas Revolucionarias. June 29, 2000. www.cubagob.cu/otras_info/minfar/far/principales_cargos.htm

Tele Rebelde, March 12, 2001

Roger Ricardo Luis. Aniversario 40 Del  Ejercito Occidental: Combatiente con las armas y las ideas. Diario Granma, Junio 18, 2001.

Cubavision TV, December 7, 2001

AP, January 10, 2002

Diario Granma, January 28, 2002

 

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