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Tomás Diez Acosta
Tomás Diez Acosta (1946– ) was born in Havana. He joined Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) in 1961. During the 1962 October Crisis, he participated in the general mobilization in Cuba as a political instructor in Military Unit 2562 in the country’s western region. From 1970 to 1986 he taught...
Tomás Diez Acosta (1946– ) was born in Havana. He joined Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) in 1961. During the 1962 October Crisis, he participated in the general mobilization in Cuba as a political instructor in Military Unit 2562 in the country’s western region. From 1970 to 1986 he taught history at the General Máximo Gómez Academy of the FAR, and other higher military schools. In 1976 he graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in political science. He retired from active military service in 1998 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Since 1987 Diez has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Cuban History, where, among other responsibilities, he headed its Department of Military History. He has participated in the Cuba-Russia-US tripartite international conferences on the October 1962 crisis in Moscow (1989), Antigua (1991), Havana (1992), and Moscow (1994). He also participated in “Girón: Forty Years Later,” the Cuba-US International Academic Conference on the Bay of Pigs invasion, held in Havana in 2001.
Published works by Diez include: Peligros y principios [Dangers and principles] (1992), which received honorable mention by the Cuban Academy of Sciences; La guerra encubierta contra Cuba [The covert war against Cuba] (1997); La crisis de los misiles 1962. Una reflexión cubana [The 1962 missile crisis: a Cuban view] (1997); and La confrontación Cuba – Estados Unidos, a partir de la Primera Ley de Reforma Agraria [The confrontation between Cuba and the United States beginning with the first agrarian reform law] (2002), which won a Concurso Julio award for books on social and political topics.