Luanda - Visiting cuban president Raul Castro paid hommage today to the late cuban internationalist, Jose Raul Arguelles, who passed away in 1975 in Kwanza Sul province, while helping the angolan armed forces to fight back the apartheid south african invasion.     

Army commander Raul Arguelles died when his vehicle run over aa anti-tank landmine in the municipality of Ebo on 12th december 1975. 

At the cemitery Alto das Cruzes, the cuban leader laid a wreath of flowers on the tomb of commander Arguelles and also on the tombs of the parents of angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

Hundreds of cuban soldiers died in Angola soil helping to drive back the racist South Africa army from angolan soil, in a struggle which ended up with the independence of Namibia and the burial of the apartheid regime in Pretoria.  

The cuban president arrived here on wednesday on a three day official visit aimed at strenghtening cooperation and friendly relations between the two countries.