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Cuban Revolution Hero Juan Almeida, 82, Dies

HeadlineSep 14, 2009

And in Cuba, tens of thousands lined up Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida, a hero of the country’s 1959 revolution. Almeida died on Friday at the age of eighty-two. Almeida was at the side of Fidel and Raul Castro from the earliest days of the revolution and was the only black commander in the leadership.

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