RICARQO ALARCON DE QUESADA

摘要

There are few, if any, Cubans without the surname Castro who are more influential in the island than 75-year-old Dr Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada. A leader of the student opposition in Havana to Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship in the 1950s and thus a key ally of the young Fidel Castro fighting in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra, he became a key figure after Castro's victory in 1959. Before he was 30 he was named Cuba's permanent representative at the UN where several times during decades of service he presided over its Security Council. He became foreign minister briefly, and since 1993 has been president of Cuba's national assembly, the Poder Popular.