Sergio del Valle Jiménez

Biography:

Sergio del Valle Jiménez was a high-ranking Cuban military and government official who served as army chief of staff during the 1962 Missile Crisis and headed various cabinet ministries during the 1960s 1970s and 1980s. A physician by training Sergio del Valle became a part of the movement against the government of Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s and by 1957 was fighting in Fidel Castro's rebel army's second column under the leadership of Camilo Cienfuegos.