Isidoro Malmierca Peoli

Octavio Isidoro Malmierca Peoli ( born September 25, 1930 in Havana, † August 11, 2001 ) was a Cuban journalist and politician.

Biography

He studied social sciences at the University of Havana and was involved early in the communist movement. At 17, he became a member of the youth organization of the Socialist People's Party ( PSP), ' Socialist Youth ' (JS), in which he rose to become Secretary-General later. He was involved in the resistance against the Batista dictatorship and was arrested there several times. In the spring of 1958 he left Cuba illegally way in Moscow on XIII. Congress of the Komsomol participate, the youth organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

After the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro Malmierca moved in 1960 into the National leadership of the PSP on, and organized as Secretary General of the Socialist youth whose resolution and transition into the founded at the instigation of Che Guevara ' Association of rebel youth ' ( AJR ). Parallel to the work as a party political strategist, he was involved in the construction of the new security structure. Thus he became in 1961 the first head of the newly created department in the Interior Ministry for State Security ( DSE), where the resulting within the structure of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of intelligence was assumed, and served as Deputy Minister of the Interior. After the PSP 1961 was merged with Castro's movement of the 26 July ( M-26 -7), Malmierca was active in the successor organs thus formed: From the ' Integrated Revolutionary Organizations ' (ORI ) in 1962, the ' Unity Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution ' ( PURSC ), arose from the 1965 finally the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC ), the first Central Committee Malmierca belonged. He became the first chief editor of the first time on October 4, 1965 issued by Party newspaper Granma. From 1967 to 1973 Malmierca was deputy director of the National Fisheries Institute. In 1973 he was elected to the Secretariat of the Central Committee.

In 1976 he was appointed as successor to Raúl Roa García as Foreign Minister in the Council of Ministers of Cuba. In this capacity, he represented in particular the attitude of Cuba's foreign policy during the transfer of units of the Armed Forces ( Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias ) for military intervention in Angola was as these actions also criticized by the Movement of Non-Aligned States, but also during the mass departures of Cubans in the United States by sea to partly self-built boats.

The laid down by him in 1992 for health reasons, Minister of Foreign Affairs took over the longtime First Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon.

Malmierca died of complications from lung cancer. His son, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz is, since March 2009 Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.