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Messages of Condolences Keep Arriving for Death of Cuban Minister.

CUBA, September 6, 2011.- The Brazilian government, the Communist  Party in that country and in Colombia, among other organizations and personalities sent in their condolences for the death of Cuban Armed Forces minister Julio Casas Regueiro.

“With deep sorrow Brazil’s government and people received the news of the death of such an distinguished Cuban,” wrote the director of the Central America and Caribbean Department of Brazil’s Foreign Ministry, Nelson Antonio Tabajara on the book of condolence opened at the Cuban embassy in Brasilia.alt

 In a letter addressed to Cuba’s Communist Party, the Brazilian Communist organization expressed its sympathy for the death of the Cuban general and underscores his efforts and sacrifices for the Cuban Revolution, as well as his outstanding role in internationalist Cuban missions to Africa.

Meanwhile, in a message addressed to President Raul Castro, the Colombian Communist Party also expressed its condolences for the passing away of the minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.

In its message the Colombian political organization describes Casas Regueiro as an excellent revolutionary and a front-line defender of Cuban sovereignty.

Other messages of condolence were sent in earlier today by the Peruvian government and diplomats from Latin American countries. The Venezuelan Ambassador in Brazil, Maximilien Sánchez said “Those who fight with dignity for their people to achieve justice and socialism will never really die.” And the Belarusian Ambassador in Brazil, Leonid Krupéts, sent condolences to the family and friends of Casas Regueiro and the Cuban people, other messages were sent by representatives from Qatar and Zimbabwe.

Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro, who was also Vice President of the Cuban Council of State died at 75 from a heart failure last Saturday, in Havana. (Cubaminrex-RHC)