Roberto Agramonte

Roberto Daniel Agramonte y Pichardo (born May 3, 1904 in the province of Villa Clara , † December 12, 1995 in Puerto Rico ) was a Cuban philosopher , sociologist and politician . Between January 6 and June 12, 1959, he was Cuba's first foreign minister after the victory of the revolution . Before that he was dean of the philosophy faculty at Havana University .

biography

Roberto Agramonte was the son of Frank Agramonte and María Pichardo. He was married and had two children.

He replaced Enrique José Varona as Dean of Philosophy at the University of Havana. From 1947 to 1948 he was ambassador to Mexico .

Roberto Agramonte was a member of the Partido del Pueblo Cubano (Ortodoxos) chaired by Eduardo Chibás , after it was founded in 1947 as a split from the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténticos) . In the presidential elections in 1948 he ran under Chibás as vice president, but the leadership duo of the still young party only reached third place among the presidential candidates. After Chibás' suicide in 1951, he was nominated by the party as a candidate for president in the elections scheduled for June 1952 and was considered a favorite to succeed incumbent President Carlos Prío of the Auténticos. However, his hopeless competitor for the presidency, ex-President Fulgencio Batista , canceled the upcoming elections immediately after the military coup he had led in March 1952. The elections held under Batista's rule in 1954 and 1958 boycotted the Ortodoxos, referring to the democratic guarantees restricted by the government.

When the revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro, which had been fighting violently against Batista's government since December 1956 , was victorious on January 1, 1959, Agramonte was appointed Foreign Minister in the first cabinet of the new government under President Manuel Urrutia Lleó and Prime Minister José Miró Cardona . He held this office for five months before he and four other ministers resigned from office due to disagreements over the new communist course in Cuba, which Raúl Roa took over.

In 1960 he and his family left Cuba for Puerto Rico , where he lived until his death.

Web links

• Roberto Agramonte in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
• Roberto Agramonte: Filosofía cubana de las postrimerías , in: Revista Cubana de Filosofía from spring 1947, accessed on November 12, 2012 (Spanish)

Publications

• La biología de la democracia (1927)
• Programa de filosofía moral (1928)
• Tratado de psicología general: un estudio sistemático de la conducta humana, 2nd, (1935, 1959)
• Biografía del dictador García Moreno (1935) (awarded),
• El pensamiento filosófico de Varona (1935);
• Varona, el filósofo del escepticismo creador (1938, 1949) (premiada),
• Varona: Su vida, su obra y su influencia (Investigación compartida con Elías Entralgo y Medardo Vitier);
• Sociología (1947, 1949).
• José A. Caballero y los orígenes de la conciencia cubana (1952),
• Sociología de la Universidad (1950, 1958),
• Mendieta Nuñez y su magisterio sociológico (1961);
• Sociología contemporánea (1963);
• Sociología latinoamericana (1963);
• Principios de sociología: un libro para latinoamericanos (1965);
• Martí y su concepción del mundo (1971);
• Sociología: Curso Introductorio (1972, 1978);
• Martí y su concepción de la sociedad Part I (1979), Part II (1984);