The outstanding pedagogue, Hero of Labor of the Republic of Cuba, Luis Manuel Ramírez Villasana, died on Monday afternoon in Bayamo, the city where he was born in 1940.

He came from a humble family, when the Revolution triumphed, in January 1959, he was part of the July 26th student bloc and was one of the leaders of the Student Association.

On December 20, 1960, he graduated as a teacher in San Lorenzo, Sierra Maestra, current municipality of Bartolomé Masó, he gave up from the position of clerk that he carried out at the Court of Bayamo and immediately he started working at a rural school in the mountain.

Villasana, as he was known, in 1976 went to Angola as an internationalist combatant, a country in which he later, at the request of his friend Raúl Ferrer, was advisor of the literacy campaign. In the brother African country he spent six years and four months.

For more than 15 years Villasana was a delegate in the circumscription 173 of the San Juan El Cristo Popular Council, in the capital of Granma, and deputy to the National Assembly in the Fifth and Sixth legislature.

He was founding president of the Granma branch of the Association of Cuban Pedagogues.


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