Living or Dead? Bernardo Benes

Has Cuban lawyer, banker and journalist Bernardo Benes died? Or is he still alive?

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Cuban lawyer, banker and journalist

Dead

Born	27 Dec 1934
Died	14 Jan 2019
Age	84 years

Correction?

Order of Vasco Nunez de Balboa - Knight

Dr. Bernardo Benes Baikowitz (27 December 1934 in Matanzas, Cuba – 14 January 2019 in Miami, Florida) was a prominent Jewish Cuban lawyer, banker, journalist and civic leader, who was responsible for freeing 3,600 Cuban political prisoners in 1978.

Bernardo Benes died on January 14, 2019, after suffering for around three years from a disease. He had a private funeral, remaining mostly unknown to the public. He was still never accepted into the community and had trouble finding work for the rest of his life. But his work lives on as now Obama has restored diplomatic relations, though the embargo on Cuba still remains. Fidel Castro and most of his supporters have too also died.