Faure Chomón Mediavilla (15 January 1929
– 5 December 2019) was a Cuban historian and politician. He was one of the founding members and leaders of the
Directorio Revolucionario 13 de Marzo. After the triumph of the Revolution he joined Fidel Castro's government. Early in his career, he served as the Secretary of Communication and Transportation and Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Later he served as Ambassador to Vietnam and Ecuador as well as historian of the Revolution. He was also member of the
National Assembly of People's Power
The National Assembly of People's Power () is the supreme organ of power of the Republic of Cuba. It is the only branch of government in the state, and per the principle of unified power, all state organs are subservient to it. It is currently ...
from 1976 to his death.
He was born in
Manatí, 45 km north of the city of
Las Tunas.
He began as a student leader in the Federation of University Students (FEU). As members of the
Revolutionary Directorate, on 13 March 1957, during the dictatorship of
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power as part of the 1933 Revolt of t ...
, he led, together with
Carlos Gutiérrez Menoyo, the revolutionary group made up of 50 men that carried out the
assault on the Presidential Palace, where he was seriously injured. He was part of the Las Villas Front under the command of Ernesto Guevara.
Once the revolution triumphed, Faure was recognized with the honorific rank of ''comandante'' in the armed forces.
He died on 5 December 2019 in Havana, due to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
See also
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Directorio Revolucionario 13 de Marzo
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Havana Presidential Palace attack (1957)
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Humboldt 7 massacre
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Radiocentro CMQ Building
The Radiocentro CMQ Building complex is a former radio and television production facility and office building at the intersection of Calle L and La Rampa in El Vedado, Cuba. It was modeled after Raymond Hood's 1933 Rockefeller Center in New York ...
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Presidential Palace
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José Antonio Echeverría
José Antonio Echeverría Bianchi (July 16, 1932 – March 13, 1957) was a Cuban prominent figure in the Cuban Revolution against President Fulgencio Batista. Echeverría was the President of the Federation of University Students (Federación Es ...
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Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo
Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo (December 8, 1934 – October 26, 2012) was a revolutionary who led the guerrilla force Second National Front of Escambray during the Cuban Revolution against Fulgencio Batista and later opposed the government of Fidel Cas ...
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Rolando Cubela Secades
Rolando Cubela Secades (19 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Cuban revolutionary leader who played a vital part in the Cuban Revolution, having been a founding member of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil and later the military lead ...
References
External links
El Ataque al Palacio Presidencial 13 de Marzo de 1957
1929 births
2019 deaths
Communist Party of Cuba politicians
Members of the National Assembly of People's Power
20th-century Cuban politicians
21st-century Cuban politicians
Ambassadors of Cuba to Vietnam
Ambassadors of Cuba to Ecuador
Ambassadors of Cuba to the Soviet Union
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