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As a trained army officer, Quevedo Perez advised the rebels of the 26th of July
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at the age of 85 years old. In the morning he had attended a medical check-up with satisfactory results, according to his son, Roberto
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Born in Havana, Cuba on 1 August 1925, José Quevedo Pérez grew up in a military environment, since his father served as an officer in the constitutional army until 1945 when he retired at the rank of
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the Cuban military offensive against 26 July
Movement rebels in the summer of 1958. Then Major Quevedo Pérez commanded the 18th Battalion, which was surrounded and decimated by the rebels during the
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