What is Efigenio Ameijeiras?
[[File:Comandante Efigenio Ameijeiras.jpg|thumb|Efigenio Ameijeiras]] '''Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado''' (September 21, 1931 – February 10, 2020) was a Cuban military commander. He worked with [[Fidel Castro]] in the military during the 1950s.<ref>[http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2020-02-10/fallecio-el-general-de-division-efigenio-ameijeiras-delgado-10-02-2020-13-02-25 Falleció el General de División Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado]</ref> He was one of the band of Castro's active guerrillas that became known as the [[26th of July Movement]], named after the raid on [[Moncada Barracks]] on 26 July 1953. During the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]], on 19 April 1961, he commanded a battalion of about 200 police and militia moving south towards Giron, that was attacked by Brigade B-26s. Ameijeiras died of [[sepsis]] on February 10, 2020 at the age of 88.<ref>[https://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2020/02/10/fallece-el-general-de-division-efigenio-ameijeiras-delgado/ Fallece el General de División Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812200443/http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2020/02/10/fallece-el-general-de-division-efigenio-ameijeiras-delgado/ |date=2020-08-12 }} {{in lang|es}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ameijeiras, Efigenio}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Cuban military people]] {{bio-stub}}