Alberto Inocente Álvarez Cabrera (December 28, 1906 – February 6, 1985) was a Cuban

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, and

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. Alvarez graduated from the

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School of Law in 1930 and then studied accounting at

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. During the regime of

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, he was involved in the Directorio Estudantil and was imprisoned. He served in the Constitutional Assembly of 1940. Elected to the Cuban House of Representatives in 1940. Elected to the Cuban Senate in 1944. Appointed Minister of Commerce (1944–1945) and then Foreign Minister 1945–1948. In 1950 he was elected to the Senate for the province of Pinar del Rio, and became Majority Whip. Then went on to serve as the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico and then as the Cuban Representative to the United Nations. The position of

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is a monthly, rotating position; he was President of the UNSC in March 1949. He had many financial holdings both in and outside Cuba, but left when

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overthrew President Carlos Prio Socarras in 1952. He left permanently in 1959. He first went to Costa Rica later moving to Miami, Florida, and after to Spain and back to Costa Rica. He was married twice, first to Lidia Fajardo and then to Fausta Aspiazu Garcia. He had two children, Alberto Inocente Alvarez Azpiazu, Maria Isabel Alvarez Azpiazu He was a member of the Vedado Tennis Club and the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club.

References

* Guillermo Jimenez, ''Los Propietarios de Cuba 1958''; Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Havana, Cuba; 2007; . * (Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvarez, Alberto Inocente Cuban diplomats Cuban senators 1905 births 1985 deaths Ambassadors of Cuba to Mexico Permanent representatives of Cuba to the United Nations Ministers of foreign affairs of Cuba Members of the Cuban House of Representatives 1940s in Cuba 20th-century Cuban lawyers 20th-century Cuban politicians Cuban emigrants to the United States