Juan Almeida Bosque Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Juan Almeida Bosque is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Council of State of Cuba. He was born on 17 February 1927 in Havana, Cuba. Almeida Bosque was a member of the 26th of July Movement, which was a revolutionary organization led by Fidel Castro that overthrew the Cuban government in 1959. He was a key figure in the Cuban Revolution and was one of the original nine members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. He was also a member of the Council of State of Cuba from 1976 until his death in 2009. Almeida Bosque was a decorated military leader and was awarded the Order of Playa Girón, the highest military decoration in Cuba. He was also awarded the Order of José Martí, the highest civilian decoration in Cuba. Almeida Bosque was married to his wife, María Antonia, and had three children. He died on 11 September 2009 in Havana, Cuba, at the age of 82.

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In 2013, a mural relief portrait of Almeida was installed on the façade of the Teatro Heredia in Santiago de Cuba. The sculpture was designed by Enrique Ávila González, creator of the portraits of Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos located in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, and includes the quotation “Aqui no se rinde nadie” (Here no one gives up).

Almeida died of a heart attack on September 11, 2009. On September 13, a memorial ceremony was held in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana and several others were held across Cuba. A national day of mourning was declared, with flags flown at half mast. Fidel Castro, who had not been seen in public since resigning as president in 2008, sent a wreath that was placed alongside one from Raúl Castro. Other senior government and Communist Party members also attended.

In 1998, Fidel Castro named Almeida a "Hero of the Republic of Cuba". Almeida also headed the National Association of Veterans and Combatants of the Revolution. He authored several books, including the popular trilogy Military prison, Exile and Disembarkation. He was also a songwriter and one of his songs, "Dame un traguito" (English: "Give me a Sip"), was popular in Cuba for several years.

A book published in 2005 alleged that the Kennedy administration had selected Almeida for a key role in a plot run called AMWORLD or C-Day to remove Castro and set to launch on December 1, 1963. It contended the plot was managed by Robert F. Kennedy and aborted by John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963.

After the success of the Cuban revolution in January 1959, Almeida commanded large parts of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba. As a major during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, he headed of the Central Army with headquarters in Santa Clara, Cuba. Later he was promoted to general, chosen as a member of the central committee and political bureau, and held a number of other government positions.

Almeida returned to Cuba with the Castro brothers, Che Guevara and 78 other revolutionaries on the Granma expedition and was one of just 12 who survived the initial landing. Almeida is often credited with shouting "No one here gives up!" (alternatively "here, nobody surrenders") to Guevara, which would become a slogan of the Cuban revolution, although the words were actually spoken by Camilo Cienfuegos. Almeida was also reputed to be a good marksman. Following the landing, Almeida continued to fight Fulgencio Batista's government forces in the guerilla war in the Sierra Maestra mountain range. In 1958, he was promoted to Commander and head of the Santiago Column of the Revolutionary Army. During the revolution, as a black man in a prominent position, he served as a symbol for Afro-Cubans of the rebellion's break with Cuba's discriminatory past.

Almeida was born in Havana. He left school at the age of eleven and became a bricklayer. He was born in a poor family and during part of his youth he was a street vendor of marijuana and a pickpocket for which he was arrested by the police in Havana, and he had the nickname “Caballo Blanco” (White Horse). He became close friend of the revolutionary Fidel Castro and in March 1953 joined the anti-Batista movement. On July 26, 1953 he joined Fidel and his brother Raúl Castro in the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. He was arrested and imprisoned with the Castro brothers in the Isle of Pines Prison. During the amnesty of May 15, 1955, he was released and transferred to Mexico.

Juan Almeida Bosque (February 17, 1927 – September 11, 2009) was a Cuban politician and one of the original commanders of the insurgent forces in the Cuban Revolution. After the rebels took power in 1959, he was a prominent figure in the Communist Party of Cuba. At the time of his death, he was a Vice-President of the Cuban Council of State and was its third ranking member. He received several decorations, and national and international awards, including the title of "Hero of the Republic of Cuba" and the Order of Máximo Gómez.