Valdés: Cuban Revolution insider passes away at 94
TL;DR
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a longtime architect of Cuba's security state and a key figure in the 1959 Cuban Revolution, died at 94. A shadowy leader who rarely spoke in public, Valdés remained influential after the uprising, briefly clashed with Castro, and in 1997 led a mission to Bolivia to locate and repatriate Che Guevara's remains.
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