In the early hours of this Tuesday, at 87 years of age, the combatant of the Cuban Revolution Ignacio Moreira Pérez de Corcho passed away in the municipality of Majagua, who in his youth was a member of the 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) and served as a guide for the invading Columns No. 2 and No. 11 of the Rebel Army.

Nato, as he was known by his family and friends, enlisted from a very young age in the resistance against the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. He participated in one of the secret cells of the M-26-7 in his area. He dedicated himself to the buying and selling of Movement bonds and to various tasks of support for the clandestine struggle.

In October 1958, he received the mission to guide and provide food and other supplies to the invading troops of Column No. 2 «Antonio Maceo», led by Commander Camilo Cienfuegos, a task he fulfilled to the fullest. On the orders of Camilo himself, he remained in the area to help the other guerrilla formations that would come later.

At the end of that same month, he received the assignment to accompany Column No. 11 «Cándido González» on its passage through what is today the Avilanian province. While carrying out tasks for the leadership of said column, he was captured by Batista’s army forces and transferred to the barracks that existed on the outskirts of the city of Ciego de Ávila, where he suffered torture and death threats.

The revolutionary triumph of the first of January 1959 surprised him while still a prisoner. Probably, the fall of the regime saved his life.

From then on, Nato devoted himself to the tasks of building the new social order. He participated in the struggle against bandits in the Florencia area, was a founder of the National Revolutionary Militias, the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution, the National Association of Small Farmers and the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution. Furthermore, from 1971 he was a member of the Communist Party of Cuba.

At the time of his death, he held the medals for the Clandestine Struggle, for the Liberation War, 28th of September, for the Struggle Against Bandits, and the medals for the 30th, 40th, 50th and 60th anniversaries of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.