Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla (born January 22, 1958 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is a Cuban lawyer, journalist and politician. He is the acting Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba .

Rodríguez Parrilla is the son of a Spanish civil war refugee . He began his political career as a student leader in the Cuban student association FEU . In the meantime he worked as a professor for international law at the University of Havana and then worked in the management of the communist youth organization UJC : from 1985 as head of the cultural department and from 1986 as secretary for international relations. In 1991 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the UJC Juventud Rebelde newspaper . In 1990 Rodríguez became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and two years later he was responsible for its cultural department.

As a cultural politician, Rodríguez Parrilla was instrumental in the 1991 controversy surrounding the movie " Alicia in the Place of Miracles " (Alicia en el pueblo de Maravillas) , which led to the film being banned from showing and the resignation of the President of the ICAIC Film Institute . Three days after the premiere of the film in Havana, his article appeared in Juventud Rebelde on June 16, 1991 , whose rejection of the film as counterrevolutionary was confirmed in the following days by other authors in other state publications.

Diplomatic career

As an officer in the Cuban Army , he was involved in the intervention in Angola . From 1993 to 1995 he acted as his country's deputy ambassador to the United Nations , from 1995 to December 2003 as head of the UN mission, then as deputy foreign minister with responsibility for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as information and communication. From October 2004 Rodríguez was first deputy foreign minister under Felipe Pérez Roque . Rodríguez led the humanitarian aid operations in Haiti (2004) and Pakistan (2005-2006).

On March 2, 2009, Cuba's head of state and government, Raúl Castro, carried out a major government reshuffle, appointing Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla as the new foreign minister. On December 11, 2012, he was appointed a member of the Politburo by Raúl Castro at the fifth session of the PCC Central Committee. During the meeting, Raúl Castro also explained the need to train a new generation of leaders.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frances Robles and Wilfredo Cancio Isla: La Habana apuesta a la experiencia y línea dura con nuevo canciller  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: El Nuevo Herald of March 10, 2009, accessed on August 22, 2012 (Spanish)  
2. ↑ Laura Redruello Campos: Algunas reflexiones en torno a la película Alicia en el pueblo de Maravillas In: Cuban Studies Volume 38, 2007, pp. 82-99 (Spanish)
3. ↑ La Habana apuesta a la experiencia y línea dura con nuevo canciller In: El Nuevo Herald of March 10, 2009, accessed on June 14, 2011 (Spanish)
4. ↑ Manuel Zayas: El canciller de la censura ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the blog cine-ojo from March 31, 2010, accessed on June 14, 2011 (Spanish) 
5. ↑ official curriculum vitae ( memento of the original from June 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on June 14, 2011 (English)  
6. ↑ Nota Oficial del Consejo de Estado ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Granma of March 3, 2009, accessed on August 22, 2012 (Spanish)  
7. ↑ Nuevas designaciones de Ministros ( Memento of January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in: Granma of March 3, 2009 (Spanish)
8. ↑ Bruno Rodríguez, el nuevo rostro de la diplomacia cubana ( Memento of March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in: La Nación of March 2, 2009 (Spanish)
9. ↑ Presidente cubano en insiste preparación de nuevos Dirigentes , Prensa Latina, December 11, 2012