Ramiro Valdés

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Ramiro Valdés Menéndez (born 1932) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician. A veteran of the Cuban Revolution, Valdés fought alongside Fidel Castro in the attack on the Moncada barracks in 1953 and was a founding member of the 26th of July Movement. He has been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba since October 1965, and has held many important governmental posts, including Interior Minister and Vice-Prime Minister. On August 31, 2006, he was named Minister of Informatics and Communications. He is the father of the Cuban composer Ramiro Valdés Puentes, awarded with Cuba's First National Prize of Composition, who currently lives in Miami and in 2004 was the protagonist of a Telemundo 51 news series titled "The Commander's Son". [1]