Alberto Álvarez Díaz (

Guanabacoa Guanabacoa is a colonial township in eastern Havana, Cuba, and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) of the city. It is famous for its historical Santería and is home to the first Afro-Cubans, African Cabildo (Cuba), Cabildo in Havana. Guanab ...

Havana Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution () was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew ...

. As a member of the 26 of July Movement, he later became the commander of the movement in the municipality of

Regla Regla () is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (''municipios'' in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba. It comprises the town of Regla, located at the bottom of Havana Bay in a former aborigine settlement named ''Guaicanamar'', Loma Modelo ...

, Havana. He was killed along with Clodomira Acosta and Lidia Doce, among other revolutionaries in the Juanelo neighborhood,

San Miguel del Padrón San Miguel del Padrón is one of the 15 municipalities/boroughs (''municipios'' in Spanish) into which the city of Havana, Cuba is divided. It is on Havana's south-eastern outskirts, stretching from Ciudad Mar to Diezmero and from Reparto Mañan ...

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He studied in the public school No.7 and later in the Superior, nevertheless, he was forced to leave his studies to start working at a shoe factory in Guanabacoa to continue his living. His first revolutionary action was at the Havana School of Commerce where he was commanding a group of guerrillas of the 26 July Movement, of which he later became a leader in his town. He was arrested at the age of 21 in Juanelo, where he was later killed along with Reynaldo Cruz Romeu, Onelio Dampiel Rodríguez, Leonardo Valdés Suárez, Lydia Doce and Clodomira Acosta.

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