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Wide of Revolution Square with Cuban national hero, Jose Marti, monument and flag at half mast2. Mid of flag at half mast3. Zoom out Old Capitol building with flag at half mast4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHavana - 12 September\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Revolution Square with Cuban national hero, Jose Marti, monument and flag at half mast\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of flag at half mast\u003cbr/\u003e3. Zoom out Old Capitol building with flag at half mast\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis Viscaino, 76, Retiree:\u003cbr/\u003e\"For me he was always a god. He was like the father of Cuba. He was the father of Cuba that everybody loved. Everyone respected him. He was good to those who surrounded him. That's what I can say; we're really feeling this because he was geniunely good, good, good.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Isla de la Juventud (formerly Isla de Pinos), May 1955\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of Fidel and Raul Castro with Juan Almeida Bosque (screen left) leaving prison\u003cbr/\u003e6. Castro brothers being greeted outside prison\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Santiago, July 1953\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of Moncada Barracks\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of police at barracks\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of bodies at barracks\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide pan of interior of prison building where Castros and Almeida Bosque were held\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Havana, December 2006\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cuban President Raul Castro and Almeida Bosque (in cream suit) clapping in Parliament\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of presidency\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of Raul Castro and Almeida Bosque talking in parliament\u003cbr/\u003eJuan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than a half-century ago, has died of a heart attack. \u003cbr/\u003eThe 82-year-old was one of several Cuban vice presidents and had been among only three surviving rebel leaders who still bore the honorary title \"Commander of the Revolution.\"\u003cbr/\u003eA statement in government media on Saturday said Almeida will \"live on forever in the hearts and minds of his compatriots.\" It said Almeida died around 11:30 p.m. on Friday night in Havana.\u003cbr/\u003eCuba declared a national day of mourning for Sunday and ordered all flags flown at half-staff.\u003cbr/\u003eA bricklayer who began working at age 11, Almeida was the only black commander among the rebel leaders. \u003cbr/\u003eHe was one of the most important and decisive voices in the battle to overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, as well as in the early years following the Jan. 1, 1959, triumph of the Cuban revolution.\u003cbr/\u003eBorn February 27, 1927, Almeida was often seen at public events in his uniform alongside the Cuban leader until Castro fell gravely ill in the summer of 2006 and finally resigned the presidency in February 2008. \u003cbr/\u003eAlmeida then became a mainstay beside Castro's younger brother and successor, President Raul Castro.\u003cbr/\u003eAlmeida was a highly visible member of Cuba's ruling elite, sitting on the Communist Party's politburo and serving as a vice president on the Council of State, the country's supreme governing body.\u003cbr/\u003eAlong with Ramiro Valdes and Guillermo Garcia, he had been among only three men still alive distinguished as a \"Comandante de la Revolucion\" - a title reserved for top leaders of rebel troops under Fidel Castro's command in the 1950s.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government statement called him \"a paradigm of revolutionary strength, solid convictions, bravery, patriotism and service to the people.\" \u003cbr/\u003eIt said Almeida's body would not lie in state, in accordance with his wishes, and funeral arrangements would be announced \"at a later date.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities were organising a ceremony on Sunday in his honour at the monument of Cuban revolutionary hero Jose Marti on Havana's Revolution Plaza, as well as at other locations around the country, including on Isla de la Juventud, an island off Cuba's mainland where Almeida once was imprisoned with the Castro brothers.\u003cbr/\u003eAlmeida joined the fight against Batista's dictatorship in March 1952 as a young law student at the University of Havana, where he met Fidel Castro, another aspiring attorney.\u003cbr/\u003eAlmeida was at Castro's side a year later, on July 26, 1953, when Cuba's future president led an armed attack on the Moncada, a military barracks in the eastern city of Santiago.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was a disaster and Almeida and both Castros were sent to a prison on Isla de los Pinos, or Isle of Pines, later renamed Isla de la Juventud. But that failure launched the revolutionary battle that triumphed 5 1/2 years later.\u003cbr/\u003eAlmeida and other survivors of the offensive were freed in May 1955 under an amnesty granted to the young revolutionaries. He accompanied the Castros and others comrades to Mexico, where they formed a guerrilla army.\u003cbr/\u003eThey returned to Cuba in December 1956 on the American yacht \"Granma\" and launched their battle from the island's eastern Sierra Maestra.\u003cbr/\u003eAlmeida, the Castro brothers and Argentine-born Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara were among only 16 who survived the landing, in which most of the rebels were killed by government troops.\u003cbr/\u003e\"No one here gives up!\" Almeida shouted to Guevara at the time, giving the Cuban revolution one of its most lasting slogans and ensuring his place in Cuban communist history. \u003cbr/\u003eAs a guerrilla leader, Almeida later headed his own front of military operations in eastern Cuba.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter Batista fled Havana on New Year's Day 1959, Almeida served in various military posts, ranging from head of motorised units to chief of the Rebel Army's Air Force. \u003cbr/\u003eHe later was named a vice minister and chief of staff of 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