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In a communiqué, Balaguer himself attributed the dozens of deaths of psychiatric patients to "prolonged low temperatures".
During the first decade of the revolution he held military posts, including that of substitute vice minister of the Armed Forces. When the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was founded in 1965, he joined the organization and served as first secretary in Santiago de Cuba from 1976 to 1985.
He rose to the Central Committee of the PCC and was sent as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1990. He remained there as a diplomat during the fall of communism in that country and the constitution of the current Russian state.
Upon his return to Cuba, he was again placed in key Party positions during the...