LC control no. | n 50032284 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Hart Dávalos, Armando |
Variant(s) | Dávalos, Armando Hart Hart, Armando |
Birth date | 1930-06-13 |
Death date | 2017-11-26 |
Place of birth | Havana (Cuba) |
Place of death | Havana (Cuba) |
Field of activity | Cultural policy Education and state Communism Cuba--Politics and government |
Affiliation | Cuba. Ministerio de Cultura Cuba. Ministerio de Educación Partido Comunista de Cuba Cuba. Consejo de Estado |
Profession or occupation | Cabinet officers Politicians |
Found in | Universidad 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) |
Associated language | spa |