Gonzalo Güell

Gonzalo Güell y Morales de los Ríos (born February 16, 1895 in Havana , † September 2, 1985 in Coral Gables , Florida ) was a Cuban diplomat and politician .

His parents were Rosa Morales de los Ríos y Otero and Gonzalo Güell y Alfonso. He studied law , became a lawyer, entered the foreign service in 1920, and was accredited in Washington, DC . In 1928 he took part in the Sexta Conferencia Internacional Americana and was secretary of a Comisión del Ferrocarril Panamericano , which presided over José Matoso de Sampaio Correia . From 1949 to 1953 he took part in the conferences of the Organization of American States and the United Nations as a representative of the Cuban government . He was one of the 40 confidants of Fulgencio Batista who flew to the Dominican Republic with him on New Year's 1959 . Shortly before, Güell had obtained the relevant entry permit from the Dominican government on behalf of Batista. After a temporary stay in Spain, he lived in the USA from 1961. In the last years of his life he worked as a Spanish teacher and librarian in a hospital in South Florida. He was married three times, two of his wives were Francisca Pubill and Juana Inigo.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Charge d'affaires of the Cuban government in Rio de Janeiro 1933-1937
Aniceto Valdivia y Sisay de Andrade	Chargé d'affaires of the Cuban government in Oslo, Norway 1940
	Cuban ambassador to Mexico 1947–1948
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas	Foreign Minister of Cuba 1956–1959	Roberto Agramonte
Emilio Núñez Portuondo	Prime Minister of Cuba 1958–1959	José Miró Cardona

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gonzalo Guell, ex-Cuban diplomat, buried in Miami, in: Miami News of September 5, 1985, accessed via Google News on May 2, 2014 (English)
2. ↑ http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/embassy/R26-1416-12-9-1948.pdf