Miguel Angel Suárez Fernández (5 July 1902 in Placetas

Placetas

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, Cuba

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 - 19 January 1968 in Miami, Florida

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) was a Cuban lawyer

Lawyer

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 and politician

Politician

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. He served as the Cuban Foreign Minister

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Cuba's once-ambitious foreign policy has been down sized as a result of economic hardship after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner Cuba was comparatively isolated in the 1990s, but has since entered bilateral co-operation with several...

 in 1951.

Suárez was the son of Miguel Ángel Suárez Gutiérrez, who a Cuban Senator from the Las Villas Province and had served as Secretary of Commerce during the presidency of Carlos Mendieta

Carlos Mendieta

Carlos Mendieta y Montefur was a Cuban politician and Provisional President of Cuba.A chief opponent of Gerardo Machado, Mendieta was installed as provisional President of Cuba in 1934 by a coup led by Fulgencio Batista. During his presidency, women gained the right to vote and the Platt Amendment...

. He graduated from the Colegio de Belén in 1920 and later from the University of Havana

University of Havana

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 School of Law.

He was the Registar of Properties for the city of Guanabacoa and later went on to serve in the Cuban House of Representatives and the Cuban Senate for Las Villas province. He served as the President of the Cuban Senate from 1945-1950. He was a signatory of Cuba's 1940 Constitution.

After Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...

 overthrew the government in 1959, Suárez went into exile. First to Venezuela

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, then to Puerto Rico

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 and finally to Miami. He died of a heart attack on his son's birthday on January 19, 1968.