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Vladimiro Roca
Cuban dissident (1942–2023)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Roca and the second or maternal family name is Antúnez.
Vladimiro Roca Antúnez (21 December 1942 – 30 July 2023) was a Cuban dissident and leader of the Cuban Social-Democratic Party.
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A member of the "Group of Four", he was imprisoned from 1997 to 2002 after co-authoring a paper calling for democratic reforms.
Early life
Vladimiro Roca Antúnez was born in Havana, Cuba, on 21 December 1942 and was named after early Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.[1] His father was Blas Roca Calderio, a co-founder of the Communist Party of Cuba.[2] In 1961, at the age of 18, he was among the first batch of young elite selected for training as fighter pilots in the Soviet Union.[3] He served for ten years in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces and subsequently worked as an economist for the government.
He became an active dissident in 1991, four years