Isidoro Malmierca
Isidoro Octavio Malmierca Peolí (born September 25, 1930 in Havana ; † August 11, 2001 ibid) was a Cuban journalist and politician .
biography
He studied social sciences at the University of Havana and became involved in the communist movement early on. At 17 he became a member of the youth organization of the Socialist People's Party (PSP), 'Socialist Youth' (JS), in which he later rose to become general secretary. He was involved in the resistance against the Batista dictatorship and was arrested several times. In the spring of 1958 he left Cuba illegally to live in Moscow on the XIII. Attend the Congress of Komsomol , the youth organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
After the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro , Malmierca moved up to the national leadership of the PSP in 1960 and, as Secretary General of the Socialist Youth, organized its dissolution and transition to the 'Association of Rebel Youth ' (AJR) founded at the instigation of Che Guevara . In parallel to his work as a party-political strategist, he was involved in setting up the new security structure. In 1961, for example, he became the first head of the newly created Department for State Security (DSE) in the Ministry of the Interior, to which the secret service created within the structure of the Revolutionary Armed Forces was subordinated, and served as Deputy Minister of the Interior. After the PSP was merged with Castro's Movement of July 26th ( M-26-7 ) in 1961 , Malmierca was active in the successor organs formed: the 'Integrated Revolutionary Organizations' (ORI) became the 'Unity Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution' in 1962 (PURSC), from which the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) emerged in 1965 , of which Malmierca belonged to the first Central Committee. He became the first editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Granma , first published on October 4, 1965 . 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 the successor of Raúl Roa García as Foreign Minister in the Council of Ministers of Cuba appointed. In this function, he represented Cuba's position in foreign policy during the deployment of units of the armed forces ( Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias ) to military operations in Angola when these actions were also criticized by the movement of the non-aligned states , but also during the mass emigration of Cubans to the USA by sea in partly self-built boats.
The post of Foreign Minister, which he resigned in 1992 for health reasons, was taken over by the longstanding First Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcón .
Malmierca died of complications from lung cancer . His son, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz , has been Cuban's Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment since March 2009.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malmierca, Isidoro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malmierca Peolí, Isidoro Octavio (full name); Malmierca Peolí, Isidoro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban politician (PSP, JS) and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 2001 |
| Place of death | Havana , Cuba |