José Miró Cardona

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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 Cuban Prime Minister from January 5 to February 16, 1959 .

Life

Miró Cardona was the son of the hero of the War of Independence General José Miró Argenter to the world and studied for his education law . He worked as a criminal defense lawyer, was twice chairman of the Havana Bar Association and was 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 Fulgencio Batista, who came to power in a coup in 1952, and tried in the mid-1950s to lead the country out of the crisis by mediating an electoral alliance. After his efforts in this regard failed, he took part in the "Conjunto de Asociaciones Cívicas" (union of civil society associations), which actively supported the armed resistance struggle proclaimed by Castro.

After he had asked Batista to resign in 1958 and agitated against the elections scheduled by him, he had to flee via the Uruguayan embassy into exile in Florida, where he then headed the "Frente Cívico Revolucionario Democrático" (Democratic Revolutionary Civic Front), a support coalition for the Revolutionaries fighting in Cuba. After the Cuban Revolution in early January 1959, he immediately returned to Havana.

On January 5th he was appointed prime minister of the revolutionary interim government until he resigned in February and the revolutionary leader Castro, who was already de facto determining the political fate of the country, took over his post. Miró was appointed Cuban ambassador to Spain shortly afterwards , from where he returned to Cuba in January 1960. He continued to work as a professor at Havana University, where he experienced the gradual curtailment of academic independence by the revolutionary government. In May 1960 he was appointed ambassador to Washington, but did not take up this post. In view of the increasingly clear pro-Communist course of the revolution leadership under Castro he stated the following July his resignation both as an ambassador and as a university professor. The Argentine embassy granted Miró Cardona political asylum and in October he went into exile via Buenos Aires to Miami .

In March 1961 he became chairman of the opposition Consejo Revolucionario Cubano (Cuban Revolutionary Council, CRC), a coalition of various Cuban exile groups supported by the CIA in the run-up to the Bay of Pigs invasion with the common goal of overthrowing Castro. In the event of a successful operation, Miró was designated as the country's provisional head of state. A few days before the clandestine operation began, the CRC published a statement calling on all Cubans to take an armed struggle against Fidel Castro, who had betrayed the ideals of the revolution and usurped power.

After the failure of the invasion, in which his son José Miró Torra took part and was captured, Miró criticized US President John F. Kennedy for refusing to support the Cuban opposition from the US military, which he regarded as treason looked at the freedom-loving Cubans. In negotiations with the US government, he subsequently tried in vain to obtain a military intervention by the US that he considered necessary to overthrow Castro. However, the State Department warned of a possible reaction by the Soviet Union and Kennedy finally ruled out this option no later than the compromise agreed between the United States and the Soviet Union in autumn 1962 to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis .

Miró resigned from the chairmanship of the CRC in April 1963 and went to Puerto Rico, where he taught as a professor of criminal law at the university until his death in 1972 and was assigned the drafting of the Puerto Rican penal code.

family

José Miró Cardona was married and had two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Javier Figueroa: La herencia imborrable de José Miró Cardona in: El Nuevo Herald of July 17, 2008, accessed on January 25, 2016 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Miró Cardona, José | University of Miami Finding Aids. Accessed August 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ His Assignment: Oust Fidel. In: The Miami News of March 24, 1961, accessed via the Google News Archive on November 22, 2013
  4. ↑ Jerry A. Sierra: Jose Miro Cardona. Accessed August 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Miró Cardona, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miró, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1972
Place of death Puerto Rico