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Hart Dávalos, Armando

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Personal name headingHart Dávalos, Armando
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Variant(s)Dávalos, Armando Hart
Hart, Armando
Birth date1930-06-13
Death date2017-11-26
Place of birthHavana (Cuba)
Place of deathHavana (Cuba)
Field of activityCultural policy Education and state Communism Cuba--Politics and government
AffiliationCuba. Ministerio de Cultura Cuba. Ministerio de Educación Partido Comunista de Cuba Cuba. Consejo de Estado
Profession or occupationCabinet officers Politicians
Found inUniversidad Popular (Radio-television program). Educación y revolución ... 1961.
Poner en orden las ideas, 1995?: t.p. (Armando Hart Dávalos) front flap (b. 06-13-30 in Habana, Cuba; led Ministries of Culture and Education and Communist party)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 27, 2017 (Armando Hart, a leading figure during the Cuban revolution who oversaw a literacy campaign that tried to ensure that all Cubans could read and write and spent much of his career as culture minister, died Nov. 26 [2017] in Havana; he was 87; designated education minister shortly after the 1959 revolutionary triumph that put Fidel Castro in power; served six years in the post, then was organization secretary for the newly formed Communist Party; culture minister from 1976 to 1997; in his later years, Mr. Hart focused on promoting the life and works of Cuban independence hero José Martí; reelected as a member of the Communist Party of Cuba's ruling Central Committee in April 2011, although he gave up a seat on the more powerful Politburo; also had sat on the island's supreme governing authority, the Council of State, until he was removed in February 2008 amid reports that he was in ill health; Armando Hart Davalos was born in Havana on June 13, 1930; in his later years, Mr. Hart published several books on political and cultural thought, including"Perfiles" ("Profiles"), a 1995 collection of texts studying the lives and works of Cuba's political and intellectual leaders; in February 1997, he was named director of the Cuban government's Office of Martí Program; also headed the José Martí Cultural Society)
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