Emilio Núñez Portuondo
Emilio Núñez Portuondo | |
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| 12th Prime Minister of Cuba | |
| In office 6 March 1958 – 12 March 1958 | |
| President | Fulgencio Batista |
| Preceded by | Andrés Rivero |
| Succeeded by | Gonzalo Güell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 13, 1898 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | August 19, 1978 (aged 79) Panama City, Panama |
Emilio Núñez Portuondo (September 13, 1898, in
National Order of the Legion of Honour of France
among other decorations from many countries.
Education and career
Dr. Núñez attended
Ramón Grau San Martín and Dr. Carlos Marquez Sterling were the presidents of the Constitutional Convention which drafted the 1940 Constitution of Cuba
.
Dr. Núñez Portuondo served as the Cuban Permanent Representative with the rank of ambassador to the United Nations in 1952–1958; and was also Minister of Labor under the interim president Dr. Andrés Domingo y Morales del Castillo in 1954. He served as president of the U.N. Security Council in September 1956 and 1957. He was Prime Minister of Cuba from March 6 to March 12, 1958.
Dr. Núñez Portuondo is best remembered as the President of the UN Security Council during the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Dr. Núñez Portuondo helped József Cardinal Mindzenty of Hungary in assisting refugees into Cuba and the United States.
Family
He was the son of General
Emilio Núñez Rodriguez, vice president of Cuba during the second administration of General Mario García Menocal in 1917-1921, and who was also governor of Havana from 1899 to 1902 as well as Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor 1913-1917. Dr. Núñez Portuondo's brother was the 1948 Cuban presidential candidate, Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo. He was married three times and had five children, Emilio Núñez Blanco, Ricardo Núñez Garcia, Maria Stana Núñez Garcia, Brunilda Núñez Fábrega and Fernando Núñez Fábrega, a former Minister of Foreign Relations of the Republic of Panama. His eldest son, Emilio Núñez Blanco, elected to the Cuban House of Representatives in 1958, though unable to take office, was the second husband of Mirta Díaz-Balart (the first wife of Fidel Castro
). He is buried in Panama City next to his third wife, Panamanian, Olga Fábrega y Fábrega (married December 3, 1937).
References
- Los Propietarios de Cuba 1958, Guillermo Jimenez Soler (Havana, Cuba: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2007) (in Spanish)
- Cuba The Pursuit of Freedom, Hugh Thomas (London, Great Britain:Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., 1971) SBN 413-27470-5
- http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oagrn007.php
- "National Affairs: Virtue and Necessity". Time. July 4, 1955. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.
- http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuban-rebels/NYT-11-1-58b.htm
- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20B11FB385B1B728DDDA80894DC405B848AF1D3
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