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Commander of the Cuban Revolution was the highest rank awarded among the revolutionary forces of the Rebel Army during the War of National Liberation . To differentiate themselves from the ambitions of Army officers to rise and occupy high ranks, the rebels refrained from having senior officer ranks, such as Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, and General.
After the revolutionary triumph, the formation and expansion of the Revolutionary Armed Forces to hundreds of thousands of men, this custom of commanders created great organizational problems and confusion, since each unit was commanded by a Commander (Brigade Commander, Division Commander , etc).
In 1976 this custom was abolished, passing to the normal ranks of colonels and generals, partly under Soviet pressure, which had also passed and eliminated this custom from its Bolshevik era.
Since then the term "Commander of the Revolution" remained for those, who had been promoted to Commander before the revolution (until 1958), and some of those who received it in the first months of 1959.
For Fidel Castro, the rank of Commander-in-Chief , an official rank of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and a historic title remained .
The list of the Commanders of the Cuban Revolution is as follows (in alphabetical order):
- Juan Almeida Bosque (1927-2009)
- Camilo Cienfuegos (1932-1959)
- Huber Matos (1918-2014)
- Manuel Piñeiro Losada (1933-1998)
- Juan Abrantes Fernandez
- Armando Acosta Cordero
- Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez
- Juan Almeida Bosque - Chief of the 3rd Eastern Front "Mario Muñoz" ( February 17 , 1927 - September 11 , 2009 )
- Angel Ameijeiras Delgado
- Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado - Second Eastern Front "Frank País"
- José Argibais - Second Chief of the V Eastern Front
- Lazaro Asencio
- Miguel Beatón - shot on July 15 , 1960
- Víctor Bordón Machado - Second National Front of the Escambray
- Francisco (Paco) Cabrera Pupo - Chief of Fidel Castro's bodyguard , accidentally killed in Caracas January 23 , 1959
- Gaspar brooks
- Julio Camacho Aguilera
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- Ernesto Casillas
- Humberto Castello
- Ramon Carneaux Machado
- Julio Casas Regueiro
- Senén Casas Regueiro
- Bellarmine Castilla Mas
- Fidel Castro Ruz - Commander in Chief, Head of Column No. 1 "José Martí"
- Raúl Castro Ruz - Chief of the 2nd Eastern Front "Frank País"
- Raúl Chibás Rivas - Brother of the orthodox politician Eduardo Chibás, he fled Cuba in August 1960.
- Faure Chomón Mediavilla - Second National Front of the Escambray, of the Revolutionary Directorate "March 13"
- Gilberto Cervantes
- Raúl Chibás
- Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán - Head of Column N ° 2 "Antonio Maceo"
- Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
- Jaime Costa
- Luis Crespo Castro
- Braulio Coroneaux - Posthumous promotion
- Rolando Cubela Secades - Second National Front of the Escambray
- Andrés Cuevas - Posthumous promotion
- Raul Curbelo
- René de los Santos Ponce - Head of Column 10 "René Ramos Latour" († April 4 , 2007 )
- Raúl Díaz Naranjo - Shot on August 15 , 1964
- Raúl Díaz Torres - exiled
- José Duarte Comas († Havana, February 4 , 2014 , at age 76).
- Felix Duque de Estrada
- Anibal Escalante
- Derminio Escalona Alonso († February 5 , 2009 )
- Juan Escalona
- Manuel 'Piti' Fajardo Rivero - doctor, killed in ambush November 29 , 1961
- Eduardo Waldo 'Rodriguez Fernandez - founder and operator Radio Rebel († 25 August of the 2003 )
- Oscar Fernández Mel - physician
- Carlos Figueredo Rosales - Directory March 13, committed suicide on March 26 of the 2009
- Angel Frias
- William Galvez Rodriguez
- Guillermo Garcia Frías
- Calixto Garcia Martinez
- Delio Gómez Ochoa - Head of the IV Eastern Front "Simón Bolívar"
- Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna - Head of Column 8 "Ciro Redondo"
- Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo - Second National Front of the Escambray
- Carlos Iglesias Fonseca
- Joel Iglesias
- Reinerio Jiménez
- Juan Ramón López Fleitas (posthumous)
- Ricardo Lorie
- Antonio Enrique Lussón Battle
- Augusto Martínez Sánchez
- Julio Martínez Paz
- Huber Matos Benítez Head of Column N ° 9 "Antonio Guiteras" and political prisoner for 20 years (1918-2014)
- Raúl Menéndez Tomassevich († August 17 , 2001 )
- Pedro Miret
- Demetrio "Villa" Montseny Vaca
- Victor Mora Pérez
- William Alexander Morgan - Second National Front of the Escambray, shot March 11 , 1961
- Ramon Paz Cuevas
- Felix Lugerio Pena Diaz
- Manuel Nogueira Ramos
- Filiberto Olivera Moya
- Ramón Paz Borroto - killed in action July 28 , 1958 .
- Félix Lugerio Pena Díaz - President of the Revolutionary Court in the Trial of Fulgencio Batista's Airmen in Santiago de Cuba, 1959
- Crescencio Pérez - Column 7
- Faustino Pérez Hernández († December 24 , 1992 )
- Walfrido perez
- Manuel Piñeiro Losada - Second Eastern Front "Frank País" ( March 14 , 1933 - March 11 , 1998 )
- Plinio Prieto Ruiz - shot October 12 , 1960
- Jose Quevedo
- René Ramos Latour - killed in action July 30 , 1958
- Ciro Redondo García - posthumous promotion
- Horacio Rodriguez Hernandez
- Luis Orlando Rodríguez Rodríguez - journalist, († January 26 , 1989 )
- Samuel Rodiles Planas
- René Rodríguez Cruz
- Aldo Santamaria
- Universo Sánchez Alvarez († Havana, 14 August of the 2012 at 93)
- Guillermo 'Lalo' Sardiñas - priest († December 21 , 1964 )
- Jorge Serguera († February 3 , 2009 )
- Humberto Sorí Marín - auditor, shot on April 20 , 1961
- Félix Torres González († August 5 , 2008 )
- Ramiro Valdés Menéndez
- René Vallejo Ortiz - doctor († August 14 , 1969 )
- Aldo Vera Serafín - After 1959 he conspired against Castro together with Commander Humberto Sorí Marín, after his execution he took refuge in the United States. He was assassinated on 25 of October of 1976 in Puerto Rico, according to one version, possibly by the intelligence services of Cuba
- Roberto Verdaguer , Fidel Castro's private pilot after Diaz Lanz fled, flees to the United States in 1961 in a plane with his twin brother Guillermo.
Promoted to Commander after the triumph of the revolution
- Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz - Promoted after the revolution, Chief of the Revolutionary Air Force in 1959, personal pilot of Fidel Castro . He fled to the United States in 1959.
- Cristino Naranjo , assassinated on November 12 , 1959 , posthumously promoted to Commander.
- Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz - physician, promoted on January 1 , 1959 . Director of Mazorra. († May 21 , 2006 )
- Domingo René García Collazo . He was disabled when he lost both legs when he tried to plant a bomb on June 12, 1957. On January 17, 1959, on a visit to Artemisa, Fidel Castro promoted him to Commander and appointed him second chief of the Pinar del Río regiment, whose chief It was Commander Juan Escalona.
- Antonio Sanchez Diaz 'Pinares' - promoted the 4 of January of 1959 (Pinar de Rio 7 of December of 1927 - Bolivia 2 of June of 1967 ). Killed in action in Bolivia in the guerrilla of Ernesto Che Guevara .