José Miró Cardona

José Miró Cardona ( born August 22, 1902 in Havana, † August 10, 1972 in Puerto Rico) was a Cuban lawyer and politician. He was from January 5 to February 16, 1959 Cuban Prime Minister.

Life

Miró Cardona was the son of the hero of the Revolutionary War, General José Miró Argenter to the world and studied for his education law. He worked as a trial lawyer, was twice chairman of the Bar Association of Havana and was a professor professor of criminal law at the University of Havana, where Fidel Castro was one of his students.

He was a prominent critic of the government of 1952 was entered into under a coup to power Fulgencio Batista and tried the mid-1950s to lead by giving a electoral alliance the country out of crisis. After its efforts failed, he participated in the " Conjunto de Asociaciones Cívicas " (union of civil society organizations ) who actively supported the Castro proclaimed by armed resistance.

After Batista in 1958 asked to resign and agitated against the recognized of this election, he was forced to flee through the Uruguayan embassy to exile in Florida, where he followed the " Frente Civico Revolucionario Democrático " (Democratic Revolutionary Civil Front ) launched a Supporter Coalition for the fighting in Cuba revolutionaries. After the victory of the revolution in early January 1959, he immediately returned to Havana.

On January 5, he was appointed Prime Minister of the revolutionary transition government until he resigned in February and already de facto the political fate of the country determined revolutionary leader Castro took over his position. Miró was appointed shortly after the Cuban Ambassador to Spain, from where he returned to Cuba in January 1960. He was still a professor at the University of Havana and experienced there the gradual curtailment of academic independence by the revolutionary government. In May 1960 he was appointed ambassador to Washington, however, did not occur on this post. Given the increasingly apparent pro-Communist course of the revolutionary leadership under Castro he declared in July following his resignation both as an ambassador as well as a university professor. Miró Cardona fled to Miami from exile after he had granted asylum to the Argentine Embassy in Havana.

It was in March 1961 Chairman of the Consejo Revolucionario Cubano opposition ( Cuban Revolutionary Council, CRC) a supported Bay of Pigs by the CIA before the invasion coalition of exilkubanischer groups that had the overthrow of Castro to the common goal. In the event a successful operation Miró was intended as a temporary head of state. A few days before the start of the secret operation of the CRC issued a statement in which all Cubans were called for an armed struggle against Fidel Castro, who betrayed the ideals of the revolution and the power was usurped.

After the failure of the invasion, which was also his son José Miró Torra participated and thereby fell into captivity, criticized Miró U.S. President John F. Kennedy for having the Cuban opposition refused to support the U.S. military what he saw as a betrayal looked to the freedom-loving Cubans. In negotiations with the U.S. government, he continued to try in vain in consequence, to obtain a treaty which is regarded him as a necessary military intervention by the U.S. to overthrow Castro. The State Department warned, however, against a possible reaction of the Soviet Union and Kennedy joined this option no later than final from the price agreed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1962 compromise to settle the Cuba crisis.

Miró joined in April 1963 by the Presidency of the CRC back and went to Puerto Rico, where he taught until his death in 1972 as a professor at the university.

Family

José Miró Cardona was married and had two children.