HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3 (ACN) Rebel Army commander Augusto Martinez Sanchez, who joined the Frank Pais Segundo Frente Oriental eastern Front died Saturday, in Havana at the age of 89.
Augusto Martinez was born 1923 in the locality of Mayari, eastern Holguin province. He joined the rebel army in April 1958.
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Martinez was appointed minister of Defense and later minister of Labor. He also assumed other posts at the Interior Ministry and at the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. Martinez also met several missions in Africa.
In correspondence with his last will, his corpse was cremated and his ashes were laid at the Pantheon of the Veterans, in the Colon Cemetery, in Havana, Jurventud Rebelde newspaper reported on Sunday.
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