Carlos Alzugaray Treto
Professor, Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies, University of Havana.
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Cuba's Future Leaders
Contributor Biography
Dr. Carlos Alzugaray Treto is a professor and researcher at the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at the University of Havana. He is also a member of the Social Sciences Section of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the Historical and Social Science Literature Section of Union of Cuban Writers and Artists.
Before embracing an academic career, he served for 35 years (1961-1996) in the Cuban Foreign Service. He was posted to Japan, Bulgaria, Argentina, Canada, Ethiopia and Belgium, where he was Ambassador and Head of the Cuban Mission to the European Union. At the Foreign Ministry he has been Department Head, Deputy Director and Adviser to the Foreign Minister on Global Political Affairs.
On two different occasions, 1988-1991 and 2000-2002, he served as Deputy Rector at the Higher Institute of International Relations in Havana, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs training and research centre. He is the author or co-editor of several books published in Cuba, Mexico and Panama, including Crónica de un Fracaso Imperial: La Administración Eisenhower y el Derrocamiento de la Dictadura de Fulgencio Batista en 1958 (La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2000).
