Osvaldo Dorticós

Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (born April 17, 1919 in Cienfuegos , † June 23, 1983 in Havana ) was a Cuban politician and from July 17, 1959 to December 2, 1976 President of the Republic of Cuba.

Osvaldo Dorticós was a lawyer and member of the Cuban Revolutionary Movement of July 26th . In 1958 he was arrested for this. He emigrated to Mexico and returned to Cuba after the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. In 1976 he was replaced by Fidel Castro as President of the Republic of Cuba, while Dorticós became a member of the State Council. In 1983 he was shot dead; He suffered from a painful chronic disease of the spine and, since the death of his wife a few months earlier, from depression .

Web links

Biography of Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (Spanish)
Osvaldo Dorticós , in the official Cuban web encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)

Individual evidence

↑ Osvaldo Dorticós, ex presidente de Cuba, se suicidó de un disparo , in: El País of June 25, 1983, accessed on December 14, 2012 (Spanish)

personal data
SURNAME	Dorticós, Osvaldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dorticós Torrado, Osvaldo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban politician and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cienfuegos
DATE OF DEATH	June 23, 1983
Place of death	Havana

[1] Osvaldo Dorticós, ex presidente de Cuba, se suicidó de un disparo , in: El País of June 25, 1983, accessed on December 14, 2012 (Spanish)