Roberto Agramonte

Roberto Agramonte y Daniel Pichardo ( May 3, 1904 in Villa Clara, † December 12, 1995 in Puerto Rico) was a Cuban philosopher, sociologist and politician. He was between 6 January and 12 June 1959, the first foreign minister of Cuba after the triumph of the Revolution. Previously, he was dean of the philosophical faculty of the University of Havana.

Biography

Roberto Agramonte was the son of Frank Agramonte and María Pichardo. He was married and had two children.

Enrique José Varona He replaced as Dean of Philosophy at the University of Havana. From 1947 to 1948 he was ambassador to Mexico.

Roberto Agramonte was a member of the Partido del Pueblo Cubano ( Ortodoxos ), chaired by Eduardo Chibás after this in 1947 as a spin-off of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano ( Auténticos ) had founded. In the presidential elections in 1948, he ran under Chibás as vice president, but the two leaders of the fledgling party won only three rank among the presidential candidates. After Chibás ' suicide in 1951, he was nominated by the party as their candidate for president in the elections planned for June 1952 and was considered the favorite to succeed the incumbent president Carlos Prio of Auténticos. His hopeless competitor for the presidency, former president Fulgencio Batista, but the forthcoming elections called off immediately after the military coup led by him in March 1952. The activities carried out under Batista's rule elections in 1954 and 1958 boycott the Ortodoxos having regard to the democratic guarantees restricted by the government.

When the since December 1956 violently against Batista's government fighting revolutionary movement triumphed under the leadership of Fidel Castro on 1 January 1959, Agramonte was determined as foreign minister in the first cabinet of the new government under President Manuel Urrutia Lleó and Prime Minister José Miró Cardona. This office he held for five months held before he and four other ministers resigned his post due to disagreements regarding the new course in communist Cuba, Raúl Roa took over the.

In 1960 he and his family left Cuba to Puerto Rico, where he lived until his death.