{"id":37698,"date":"2026-06-22T09:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37698"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:59:25","slug":"cuban-revolutionary-valdes-dies-at-the-age-of-94","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cuban-revolutionary-valdes-dies-at-the-age-of-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban revolutionary Valdes dies at the age of 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cuban revolutionary leader Ramiro Valdes, a close ally of Fidel Castro and one of the last surviving commanders of the 1959 revolution, has died at the age of 94.<\/p>\n<p>President Miguel\u00a0Diaz-Canel\u00a0announced his death on Sunday, paying tribute to Valdes as a hero of the revolution.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\nValdes fought alongside Fidel and Raul Castro from the early days of the uprising.<\/div>\n<div>\nHe went on to hold several senior government posts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-37698","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Cuban revolutionary leader Ramiro Valdes","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37700,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37698\/revisions\/37700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}