Carlos Rafael Rodríguez ( Spanish: Carlos Rafael Rodríguez , 1913-1997) - Cuban politician.
| Carlos Rafael Rodriguez | |
|---|---|
| Carlos Rafael Rodríguez | |
 K.R. Rodriguez (center) at the SED Congress in Berlin, 1971. | |
| Date of Birth | May 23, 1913 |
| Place of Birth | Cienfuegos , Cuba |
| Date of death | December 8, 1997 (84 years old) |
| Place of death | Havana , Cuba |
| Citizenship |  Cuba |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Education | |
| The consignment | Communist Party of Cuba |
| Awards | [d] |
Biography
Born in Cienfuegos and already at the age of 20, he became mayor of the city, and four years later he joined the Communist Party and was appointed editor of the party newspaper Hoy [1] . In 1939, Carlos graduated from the University and, despite participating in a general strike in 1935 against President Carlos Mendieta [2] , in 1942 joined the office of President Batista [3] . The inclusion of Batista in the cabinet of the "educated Marxist " Cuban political circles regarded as the highest point of rapprochement between Batista and the Communists [2] .
Rodriguez met Fidel Castro through a mutual acquaintance after Castro visited a bookstore controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba; it was a few days before the unsuccessful assault on the Moncada barracks , undertaken by Fidel and his associates on July 26, 1953 [4] . At that moment, Rodriguez condemned the actions of Castro [1] , but subsequently joined the rebels. In July 1958, Rodriguez joined the July 26 movement in the Sierra Maestra Mountains; it was the first gesture of support for the rebels led by Castro from the Communist Party [4] .
After the victory of the revolution, Castro appointed Rodriguez the director of the , which he led from 1962 to 1965; some foreign media described Rodriguez's status as the “economic king of Cuba” [1] . In 1969, Rodriguez was sent as an observer to the Conference of Communist and Workers Parties in Moscow, where he delivered a speech in which he noted that Cuba “will stand firmly for the USSR” [5] . Rodriguez’s visit and speech were steps taken by the Castro regime for a new rapprochement with the USSR after the disagreements that took place between Moscow and Havana in the early and mid-1960s. Until the end of his life Rodriguez was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. At the end of his life, he suffered from Parkinson's disease . He died in Havana, was buried with honors, the commission on the funeral of Rodriguez was personally headed by Fidel Castro [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Dillon.
- ↑ 1 2 Suchlicki 106.
- ↑ Taking the post of chief of the General Staff, Batista overthrew President Ramon Grau and brought to power as President Mendietu.
- ↑ 1 2 Domínguez 30.
- ↑ Suchlicki 153-4.
Literature
- Domínguez, Jorge I. (1989). To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba's Foreign Policy . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press . ISBN 0-674-89325-5 .
- Suchlicki, Jaime (2002). Cuba: from Columbus to Castro and Beyond , 5th Edition. Washington, DC: Brassey's. ISBN 1-57488-436-0 .
- Dillon, Sam (December 13, 1997). " Carlos Rodriguez, Castro Ally And Leftist Leader, Dies at 84. " The New York Times . Retrieved on January 31, 2008.