Raul Presides Over Military Honors at Funeral of Pedro Miret

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 19 (acn) Army General Raul Castro, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, presided over today in Santiago de Cuba, at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, the ceremony of military honors at the funeral of the Commander of the Rebel Army Pedro Miret, who died on January 15, at 88 years of age.

Wreaths from the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Army General Raul Castro, and relatives of Miret, were placed in the altarpiece to the Martyrs of July 26, 1953.
Young soldiers of the ceremony unit of the General Staff of the Revolutionary Armed Forces carried the awards of the outstanding revolutionary fighter and the funerary urn, which was deposited in a niche near the place where the remains of his comrades in arms Haydee Santamaria and Melba Hernandez rest.
With the firing of three rifle shots and the interpretation of the 26 of July March, the persons attending the funeral placed white roses by the vault of the Rebel Army fighter, born in the city of Santiago de Cuba, on this day in 1927.
Also paying tribute to Pedro Miret were Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes, a member of the Political Bureau and Vice-president of the Councils of State and Ministers; the member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and its first secretary in Santiago de Cuba, Lazaro Exposito; Major General Rafael Hernandez, Chief of the Eastern Army; and members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution.
Army General Raul Castro, at the end of the ceremony, greeted and spoke with the widow and relatives of Miret, who was also a combatant at Bay pf Pigs, and conversed with fighters of the July 26th Movement and members of the Granma yacht expeditionary force present in the funeral of this illustrious son of Cuba.