Carlos Rafael Rodríguez
Illustration — Rodríguez between 1970 and 1990 • Illustration — Carlos Rafael Rodríguez (right) with Erich Honecker (left) and Hermann Axen (center) in 1987 Carlos Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez (May 23, 1913 – December 8, 1997) was a Cuban Communist politician and economist, who served in the cabinets of presidents Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. Carlos Rafael Rodríguez was born in Cienfuegos, he became mayor of the city when he was only 20. Four years later, he joined the Communist Party and was appointed editor of the party newspaper, Hoy.
Also recorded as Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez
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- Born
- 1913 · Cienfuegos.
- Died
- 1997 · Havana.
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- Cuba
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- politician · writer
- Education
- University of Havana
- Honours
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres · Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria · Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland · Star of People's Friendship · Order of the October Revolution
- Languages
- Spanish
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Born at Cienfuegos in 1913, died in Havana in 1997.
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Carlos Rafael Rodríguez appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a politician (23 May 1913 – 8 December 1997). Carlos Rafael Rodríguez was born on 23 May 1913; the birthplace is Cienfuegos, Cuba, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Carlos Rafael Rodríguez died on 8 December 1997; the place of death is recorded as Havanna by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and as La Havane (Cuba) by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez studied at University of Havana. The recorded working language is Spanish. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and Star of People's Friendship.
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- 1.Sam Dillon, Carlos Rodriguez, Castro ally and leftist leader, dies at 84 (“C.R., aliado de Castro y líder izquierdista, muere a los 84 [años]”), en el tradicional diario The New York Times, 13 de diciembre de 1997. Participó de la huelga general de 1935 contra el presidente provisional Carlos Mendieta. Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: from Columbus to Castro and beyond (“Cuba: desde Colón hasta Castro y más allá”), 5 ta edición, Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2002, ISBN 1-57488-436-0, pág. 106.
- 2.Jorge I. Domínguez, To make a world safe for Revolution: Cuba's foreign policy (“Hacer del mundo un lugar a salvo para la Revolución: La política exterior de Cuba”), Harvard University Press, Cambridge (estado de Massachusetts), 1989, ISBN 0-674-89325-5, pág. 30.
- 3.Historical Dictionary of Cuba. 978-1-4422-6455-7.
- 4.La Revolución cubana y la planificación socialista.
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