OFFICERS FROM EASTERN ARMY RECEIVE MEDALS
Santiago de Cuba - The 50th Anniversary of the FAR commemorative medal was bestowed upon a group of officers from the Eastern Army whom have a relevant trajectory in the institution celebrated in a ceremony in the Grand Tank Unit of the historic Mangos de Baraguá.
In the ceremony presided by members of the Politburo, Army Corps General Ramón Espinosa MartÃn (Chief, Eastern Army) and Misael Enamorado Dáger, First Secretary of the Party in Santiago de Cuba, active and reserve officers were promoted to the next higher rank.
Distinctions were given to 10, 15, and 20 years of service to the Revolutionary Armed Forces to a group of combatants.
Source: Radio Rebelde
Commentary: Is the promotion of these active and reserve officers a form to quell a growing discontent within the ranks of the Eastern Army? Army Corps General Ramón Espinosa MartÃn is no devotee of Army General Raul Castro and he was appointed Chief of the Eastern Army by Fidel Castro in 1984. What does this say about absolute loyalty to Fidel Castro’s successor and the perception that the armed forces is monolithic?
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