Ramiro Valdes participated in all of the keystone moments of the Caribbean nation’s fight to topple the US-backed Batista dictatorship Cuban revolutionary commander Ramiro Valdes Menendez, a figure revered in the island nation as a hero who fought alongside Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, has passed away at the age of 94. In an X post on Sunday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Valdes’ death “hurt deeply, like that of a father.” “Every act in Commander Ramiro’s life was marked by his