Ricardo Alarcon, one of the most powerful men in Cuba under former President Fidel Castro and a key player in relations with the United States, died in Havana on Saturday evening, his family said.
The former diplomat was one of the architects of the first migratory dialogue between Washington and Havana in 1978, the year in which negotiations also began with a group of representatives of the Cuban community in the United States.
He was foreign minister between 1992 and 1993 and then served as president of the National Assembly for 20 years until he was removed from the post and the ruling political leadership. Alarcon was born on May 21, 1937. From a very young age he participated in the July 26 Movement, the revolutionary organization that overthrew U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
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