Felipe Pazos (September 27, 1912 – February 26, 2001) was a Cuban economist who initially supported the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro, but became disillusioned with the increasingly radical nature of the revolutionary government. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The Cuban Revolution refers to the revolution that led to the overthrow of the United States proxy ruler General Fulgencio Batista 's regime on January 1, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13 1926 is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from December 1959 to December 1976 and then president until Born in Havana, Pazos earned a doctorate from the University of Havana in 1938. Havana ( IPA: aˈβana officially Ciudad de La Habana, is the Capital city, major port and leading The University of Havana or UH (in Spanish, Universidad de La Habana) is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana He was a member of the Cuban delegation to the 1944 Bretton Woods conference. The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, commonly known as Bretton Woods conference, was a gathering of 730 Delegates from all 44 Allied In 1946, he joined the staff of the fledgling International Monetary Fund that had been established at the Bretton Woods conference. The International Monetary Fund ( IMF) is an International organization that oversees the Global financial system by following the Macroeconomic He worked there for three years before returning to Cuba in 1950 to head the newly established National Bank of Cuba for two years at the behest of Cuban President Carlos Prío Socarrás. This article discusses banking in Cuba and gives an overview of the recent past This page contains a list of Presidents of Cuba. This page also contains a list of Prime Ministers of Cuba from the creation of that office in 1940 until 1976 when it was abolished Carlos Prío Socarrás ( July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977) was the 16th President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military
After Fulgencio Batista took power in Cuba through a military coup d’état in 1952, Pazos became active in supporting the resistance against Batista. General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (fulˈxensjo βaˈtista i salˈdiβar January 16, 1901 &ndash August 6, 1973) was a Cuban Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Batista's rule came under increasing assault during the 1950s, and he and the Cuban military soon found themselves fighting against a young Castro and the forces of his 26th of July Movement. Military of Cuba Military manpower The 26th of July Movement ( Spanish: Movimiento 26 de Julio; M-26-7) was the revolutionary organization planned and led by Fidel Castro that At the time, Castro was waging a guerrilla campaign in the mountainous Sierra Maestra region of Cuba. Guerrilla warfare is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes raids etc For the Cuban son bandsee Sierra Maestra (music. Sierra Maestra is a Mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province Batista had declared that Castro had been killed; however, Pazos arranged for New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews to come and meet Castro in February 1957. Herbert Lionel Matthews ( January 10, 1900 – July 30, 1977) was a reporter and editorialist for the New York Times who The resulting interview refuted Batista's claims, and gave Castro and his revolutionaries international attention. In July 1957, Castro convened a meeting in the Sierra Maestra between his group of rebels and pro-Capitalist representatives, including Pazos. Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where Pazos' signature on the July 12 Sierra Manifesto was meant to help reassure the Cuban people that the revolutionaries were not radical ideologues. Pazos and his family were forced to flee Cuba soon after its release.
After Castro's victory in 1959, Pazos returned to Cuba and once again headed the National Bank of Cuba. However, he soon found himself becoming increasingly disillusioned with the new Cuban government. In April 1959, Castro and his aides, including Pazos, visited the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Many had suspected that the purpose of the visit was to ask for economic aid, but Castro forbade Pazos from making any such requests. Pazos privately expressed his frustrations to officials at the U. S. State Department and Treasury Department. The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department and the Treasury of the United States government.
Pazos' confidence was further weakened when Castro ordered the arrest and imprisonment in October 1959 of Huber Matos, an anti-Communist revolutionary who had recently resigned from office. Huber Matos Benítez (born November 26, 1918) was a Cuban revolutionary who helped successfully overthrow General Fulgencio Batista in concert Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based After Castro angrily denounced the United States for being complicit in the "bombing" of Havana with thousands of anti-Castro leaflets by the ex-Air Force Chief Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Pazos decided to resign. Pedro Luis Diaz (born on July 8 1926 in Havana Cuba) was Chief Air Force Commander under Fidel Castro. He tendered his resignation on October 23, 1959 to President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC - The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado ( April 17, 1919 &ndash June 23, 1983) was a Cuban Politician who served as the 21st Castro's brother, Raúl, called for his execution. Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born June 3 1931 is the President of the Cuban Council of State and the Head of state of Cuba. However, Pazos was allowed to leave the country.
Pazos ended up working at the Alliance for Progress and the Inter-American Development Bank, writing many economic articles on Latin America, before retiring in 1975 to Venezuela. The Alliance for Progress initiated by US President John F Kennedy in 1961 aimed to establish economic cooperation between North and South America The Inter-American Development Bank (preferred abbreviation IDB, although sometimes found as IADB) was established and headquartered in Washington D Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the He died in Puerto Ordaz. Puerto Ordaz is a planned city which together with the older settlement of San Felix forms Ciudad Guayana in Bolívar State, eastern Venezuela. He had two sons and a daughter. His son Felipe starred alongside Spencer Tracy in the 1958 film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Spencer Tracy ( April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award -winning Actor of stage and The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. The Old Man and the Sea is a Novella (just over 100 pages in length by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in
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- Harnecker, Marta (1987). Fidel Castro's Political Strategy. New York: Pathfinder Press. ISBN 0873486668.
- Hispanic Foundation, Library of Congress (1966). National Directory of Latin Americanists: Bibliographies of 1,884 Specialists in the Social Sciences & Humanities. Washington, D. C. : Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office.
- Lewis, Paul (March 9, 2001). "Felipe Pazos, 88, Economist; Cuban Split Early With Castro". The New York Times. Retrieved on December 28, 2007.
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