Dámaso José Lescaille Tabares
Dámaso José Lescaille Tabares | |
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| Cuban ambassador to Jamaica of  Cuba to  Jamaica | |
| In office August 1978 – November 1980 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Larrañaga Díaz |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Larrañaga Díaz |
| Ambassador of Cuba to  South Yemen | |
| In office November 1981 – March 1985 | |
| Succeeded by | November 1986-July 1988: Sergio Armas Rodriguez[1] 14 de octubre de 2008: Buenaventura Reyes Acosta[2] |
| Cuban ambassador to Jamaica of Cuba to Jamaica | |
| In office 1987–1991 | |
| Preceded by | Claudio Ramos Borrego |
| Succeeded by | Rafael Polanco Sirahojos |
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| Born | December 11, 1934 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
| Died | January 27, 2014 (aged 79) Havana, Cuba |
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Dámaso José Lescaille Tabares (nom de guerre Ulises Estrada;[3] December 11, 1934 – January 27, 2014) was a Cuban revolutionary, journalist, intelligence officer and ambassador.
Career[edit]
- From a very young age he participated in clandestine work against the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
- In 1959 belonged to founders of the Dirección General de Inteligencia.
- In the early 1960s he trained Tamara Bunke.
- In 1965 he accompanied Che Guevara to Kigoma, the missions in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence and learned Swahili language.[4]
- In 1970 he was counsellor in the embassy in Algiers.
- On the September 11, 1973 he was military adviser in Santiago de Chile.
- From 1975 to August 1978 he was deputy head of the American Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
- From August 1978 to November 1980 he was Ambassador in Kingston, Jamaica.
- On August 30, 1979 Jamaican opposition leader Edward Seaga claimed, that Estrada would have a shady background and is known as a political activist. In 1980, Seaga became prime minister and Estrada was declared persona non grata.[5]
- He headed the Directorate of Non-Aligned Movement and was Director of Africa and Middle East in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cuba).
- From November 1981 to March 1985 he was ambassador to Aden (South Yemen)
- From 1987 to 1991 he was ambassador to Algiers and concurrently accredited to Nouakchott, Mauritania, and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- He was editor-in-chief of the newspapers Granma International and El Habanero and of the magazine Tricontinental.
References[edit]
- ^ Sergio Armas Rodriguez
- ^ Buenaventura Reyes Acosta
- ^ Oramas Oliva, Oscar (7 February 2014). "Dámaso José Lescaille Tabares, Ulises Estrada: Un revolucionario fiel y consecuente – Rebelion". Rebelion.org (in Spanish).
- ^ Emizet Francois Kisangani, Scott F. Bobb, Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, p. 252
- ^ Cuban Chronology. Central Intelligence Agency, National Foreign Assessment Center. 1978.
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