Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Nov 13.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today lamented the death of the prominent scientist Jorge González Pérez, a prominent forensic expert and Doctor of Legal Medicine.
The loss of a brilliant scientist, passionate and loyal until his last breath, like Jorge González, Popi for all Cubans, Hero of Labor and admired Health director, to whom we owe, among many contributions, the discovery of Che's remains, hurts greatly, the president wrote on the social network X.
The day before, the Minister of Public Health, José Angel Portal, reported on X the death of who he considered a beloved person and a paradigm of Medicine and Science in Cuba.
Popi, as he was known by Cubans, led since 1995 the search for the remains of Che and his comrades who fell in the internationalist struggle in Bolivia in 1967, which culminated in the identification and return to Cuba of the guerrilla commander and several of his combatants, in 1997.
He served as a deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power from 1998 to 2003, being reelected for the period 2003-2008, during which he held the position of president of the Parliament's Health and Sports Commission.
He also served as president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Bolivia on both occasions.
He was ratified as a deputy on April 18, 2018 at the constitutive session of the IX Legislature, held at the Havana Convention Palace. (PL) (Photo: ACN)
