The
honorary title
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Hero of the Republic of Cuba ( es, Héroe de la República de Cuba) is the highest decoration awarded by the
Republic of Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean ...
. It is equivalent to other
hero titles common in the
Socialist Bloc
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. The decoration is physically represented with the Gold Star Medal ( es, Medalla Estrella de Oro), hanging in a gold plaque
enamelled with the colors of the
national flag.
It was established by the Decree-Law Number 30 of 10 December 1979, and it is "awarded to Cuban and foreign citizens in recognition of extraordinary merits achieved in productive labour or in struggles for conquests and in defense of the achievements and interests of the working class, as well as for consistent practice and valuable contributions to proletarian internationalism."
Recipients
Individuals
It has been received by over forty individuals, also posthumously, including:
*
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1980)
*
Yuri Romanenko
Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko (russian: Ю́рий Ви́кторович Романе́нко; born 1 August 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Over his career, Yuri Romanenk ...
(1980)
[
* Leonid Popov (1980)]Valery Ryumin
Valery Victorovich Ryumin (russian: Валерий Викторович Рюмин; 16 August 1939 – 6 June 2022) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Biography
In 1958, he graduated from the Kaliningrad Mechanical Engineering Technical College with the ...
(1980)[
* ]Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and ...
(1981)
* Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
Corps General Abelardo Colomé Ibarra (born 13 September 1939 in Santiago de Cuba, Oriente Province, Cuba) was a Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba and the Cuban Minister of the Interior, serving in the latter position from 1989, until ...
(1984)[
* Ulises Rosales del Toro (1989)][
* Ramón Espinosa Martín (1989)][
* Enrique Carreras Rolás (1989)][
* Rafael Moracén Limonta (1989)][
* Fidencio González Peraza (1989)][
* Orlando Cardoso Villavicencio (1989)][
* Rolando Pérez Quintosa (1992)
* Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (1998)]Juan Almeida Bosque
Juan Almeida Bosque (February 17, 1927 – September 11, 2009) was a Cuban politician and one of the original commanders of the insurgent forces in the Cuban Revolution. After the rebels took power in 1959, he was a prominent figure in the Co ...
(1998)[
* Ramiro Valdés Menéndez (2001)][
* ]José Ramón Fernández Álvarez
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ).
In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...
(2001)[
* Sergio del Valle Jiménez (2001)][
* ]Pedro Miret Prieto
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for '' Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...
(2001)[
* Julio Casas Regueiro (2001)][
* Joaquín Quintas Solá (2001)][
* ]Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado
Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado (September 21, 1931 – February 10, 2020) was a Cuban military commander affiliated with Fidel Castro from the 1950s. Son of Manuel Ameijeiras Fontelo, a native of Pontevedra (Spain) and the Cuban María de las Angusti ...
(2001)[
* ]Antonio Enrique Lussón Batlle
Antonio Enrique Lussón Batlle (born 1930), Cuban military officer and one of four Vice Presidents of the Council of Ministers. Early life
Batlle was born in Santiago de Cuba to a financially stable family. and he obtained a good education, but ...
(2001)[
* Samuel Rodiles Planas (2001)][
* Raúl Menéndez Tomassevich (2001)][
* Vilma Espín Guillois (2001)][
* Delsa Esther Puebla Viltre (2001)][
* Gerardo Hernández Nordelo (2001)][
* Fernando González Llort (2001)][
* René González Sehwerert (2001)][
* Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez (2001)][
* ]José Ramón Machado Ventura
José Ramón Machado Ventura, M.D. (born 26 October 1930) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2008 to 2013. With the election of Raúl Castro as President of Cuba on 24 F ...
(2013)
* Carlos Fernández Gondín (2015)
* Raúl Díaz-Argüelles García (2015)
* Víctor E. Schueg Colás (2015)
* Romárico V. Sotomayor García (2016)
* Álvaro López Miera
* Harry Villegas Tamayo
Harry Villegas Tamayo (March 10, 1938 - January 2020) was an soldier and revolutionary fighter from Cuba who was awarded Hero of the Republic of Cuba, Highest Decoration of Cuba. He was one of the two soldiers of Cuba who survived and escaped when ...
Localities
On 1 January 1984, the title was awarded to the city of Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana.
The municipality extends over , and contains ...
.
See also
* Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
* Orders, decorations, and medals of Cuba The orders, decorations, and medals of Cuba are orders and medals awarded for exemplary service to the nation of Cuba. The current decoration system has 2 honorary titles, 22 orders, 49 medals, and 35 distinctions.
Honorary titles
Orders
Medals ...
References
External links
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Orders, decorations, and medals of Cuba
Awards established in 1979
1979 establishments in Cuba
Hero (title)