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Fernández, José R

LC control no.nr 88003273
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Personal name headingFernández, José R.
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Variant(s)Fernández, José Ramón, 1923-2019
Fernández Álvarez, José Ramón
Álvarez, José Ramón Fernández, 1923-2019
Gallego, 1923-2019
Fernández, Gallego, 1923-2019
Associated countryCuba
Birth date1923-11-04
Death date2019-01-06
Place of birthSantiago de Cuba (Cuba)
AffiliationCuba. Ministerio de Educación Cuba. Council of Ministers Partido Comunista de Cuba Comité Olímpico Cubano
Profession or occupationPoliticians Generals
Found inHis The transformation of the educational system in Cuba, 1985: t.p. (José R. Fernández) p. vi (Cuban Minister of Education)
Playa Girón, c2001: t.p. (José Ramón Fernández) p. 7, etc. (b. 1923 in Cuba; active in July 26 Movement and leader of Bay of Pigs defense; Cuban politician, currently vp of Council of Ministers)
Olímpicas razones, c2000: p. v (José Ramón Fernández Alvarez)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 7, 2019 (José Ramón Fernández, a retired Cuban brigadier general who was key in forming the communist country's new army and commanded Cuban defenses at the Bay of Pigs, died Jan. 6 [2019] at 95. Gen. Fernández served for a time as a vice president on Cuba's Council of Ministers, or cabinet. A founding member of the Communist Party of Cuba, he was reelected to the party's ruling Central Committee in 2011, at 87. José Ramón Fernández Álvarez, nicknamed "El Gallego"--"The Galician"--for his Spanish parentage, was born in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago on Nov. 4, 1923; worked in the education ministry from 1970 to 1990; president of the Cuban Olympic Committee since 1997)
El nuevo día WWW site, viewed Jan. 7, 2019 (in article dated Jan. 6, 2019: José Ramón Fernández; José Ramón Fernández Álvarez; El "Gallego Fernández [unmatched quotation mark sic]; division general and former president of the Comíte Olímpico Cubano; died today at age 95)
Associated languagespa
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