Death of the 7th military officer of the Cuban communist regime. The spokesman of the Cuban communist regime announced the death of the 7th military man of the Cuban regime in two weeks, Pedro Gerardo Gutiérrez Santos, after the first death occurred on July 17, according to official information.

According to Granma, the fighter Gutierrez Santos died at the age of 92 in the morning of Sunday August 1st due to a pulmonary thromboembolism.

This is the first of the 7 cases of deaths reported so far in which the authorities or the regime's press have made known the causes of death of a military man.

The body of the combatant will be cremated and his ashes will be deposited in the Veterans Pantheon of the Colon Necropolis, "according to his will", according to Granma. 

The Cuban regime's objective in announcing military deaths is to foment terror. Following the deaths of six Cuban military personnel in less than two weeks, a political analyst said that such events show that there are "fissures" within the Castro regime and that the public announcements of such deaths are aimed at promoting terror on the part of the dictatorship.

Cuban political scientist Julio M. Shiling said that "it is no coincidence" that since the popular uprising that began on July 11, six generals from the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior have died.

"This is becoming more and more like an Agatha Christie novel," Shiling told The Epoch Times. "It's no coincidence all these numbers of people dead and the disappearance of any physical evidence of their bodies." 

Fourth Cuban general dies in 8 days. The Ministry of Armed Forces of the Cuban regime (MINFAR) announced on Monday the death of reserve general Manuel Eduardo Lastres Pacheco - making him the fourth high-ranking officer to die in recent days on the island.

According to the communiqué read live on Cuban state television's "Noticiero de Mediodía", Lastres' body was cremated, however, the note sent by MINFAR did not give details of the cause of death or the age of the military officer.

The regime pointed out that Lastres joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla in 1957 and was under the orders of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

This new announcement comes days after the regime reported the death of Major General Ruben Martinez Puente. As in the case of Lastres, the dictatorship did not report the causes of his death and said that his body would be cremated. 

MYSTERY IN CUBA: 5 HIGH-RANKING GENERALS DIED IN JUST EIGHT DAYS 

MIAMI – The Cuban government hasn’t released the cause of death of the five high-ranking generals who have died in the last eight days.

The Cuban government did identify them as Cuban Generals Armando Choy Rodriguez, Rubén Martínez Puente, Manuel Eduardo Lastres Pacheco, Agustín Peña Porres and Marcelo Verdecia Perdomo.

Choy Rodriguez was a brigadier general. He was an author and historian of Chinese descent. He was the founder of the July 26 Movement in Villa Clara. Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas tweeted Tuesday that he had died Monday night.

Martínez Puente was a general in the reserves. He was credited with giving the order to shoot down the planes of the exile group Hermanos al Rescate. The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Cuba, or MININT, announced he died on Saturday. He was 79.