José Ramón Fernández

José Ramón Fernández Álvarez (November 4, 1923 – January 6, 2019)[1] was a Cuban Communist leader who was a vice-president of the Council of Ministers.

He was judged and sentenced to prison at Presidio Modelo on the Isla de Pinos (Isle of Pines) until the Castro brothers' victory over Batista on January 1, 1959.

At the time of the Bay of Pigs Invasion on 17 April 1961, he was director of militia training and based at Managua near Havana.

Before dawn that day, Fidel Castro ordered him to command the many battalions of militia and regular army troops engaged in fighting the invading forces of Brigade 2506.

Fernández Álvarez took part in the seven Congresses of the Cuban Communist Party and beginning in 1975 was a member of the Central Committee.