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Cuba. Certificate of Founding Member of the Communist Party of Cuba. José R. Ponce Díaz. Signed by Fidel Castro Ruz, printed company. José Ramón Ponce Díaz. Known as Pepe Ponce. He was a Cuban revolutionary fighter, assailant of the Moncada Barracks and expeditionary of the Granma. Militant of the Orthodox Party. He was among the large group of Artemiseños who participated in the actions of July 26, 1953 in Oriente. For this reason he was sent to the Presidio Modelo de Isla de Pinos, being amnestied in 1955. He returned to Cuba on the expedition of the Granma yacht and was critically injured in the first fight held by the expeditionaries in Alegría de Pío. Prisoner was sent back to prison, where he remained until the end of the war. After his release he re-entered the revolutionary forces and was chief of police in Pinar del Río and Las Villas; He participated in the cleansing of mercenary remnants after the battle of Girón and fulfilled internationalist missions in Angola, Algeria and Syria.
