Severo Aguirre del Cristo
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Severo Aguirre del Cristo (May 1, 1912 - January 13, 1992) was an Afro-descendant Cuban communist politician, carpenter by trade and leader of different communist organizations since 1930, ambassador to the Soviet Union and member of the National Assembly of the People's Power of Cuba.
Timeline[edit]
In 1930, Aguirre joined the Cuban Communist Youth League (LJCC), a youth organization associated with the Cuban Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). In 1931, at the I National Conference, he was elected general secretary of the LJCC, a position he held until the dissolution of the League in 1938. In December 1933 he was sent to the Plenary of the CE of the International Youth Communist (IJC) in Moscow to get LJCC admission to the International. In 1935 he attended as a delegate to the VI Congress of the ICJ, where he was elected a member of the CE of the ICJ (under the pseudonym "Ramírez") as a representative of the LJCC. In August 1938 he was elected the delegate to the World Youth Congress at Vassar College in New York City.
In 1934 he joined the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and was elected a member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau.
In 1937 he was part of the National Committee of the Revolutionary Union Party and was leader of the People's Youth Group (AJP). In 1939 the Communist Revolutionary Union nominated him as a candidate to participate in the Constituent Assembly. In 1940, after the unification of the AJP with the Brotherhood of Young Cubans, he was secretary of the Joint National Commission and Secretary General of the CE of the Cuban Revolutionary Youth.
In 1944 he was a member of the National Committee and the CE of the Popular Socialist Party (PSP), where he was responsible for political education. The same year he presented a report at the II National Assembly of the PSP and was a member of the editorial board of Fundamentos magazine.
In 1954, After the overthrow of President Jacobo Árbenz, he returned to Cuba. He worked clandestinely and was responsible for the peasant commission of the PSP. He maintained contacts, in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra and Escambray, between the PSP and the Rebel Army. In 1959, he became secretary of the CE of the PSP. He was also the representative of the PSP to the XXI Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the same year.
After the victory of the Cuban revolution, he was head of the livestock department of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform Agriana (INRA). He was vice minister of INRA and dean of the faculty of agriculture at the University of Havana. As a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, he was also president of the National Council of the Cuban Movement for Peace and National Sovereignty and vice-president of the World Council for Peace. From 1973 to 1979, the ambassador of Cuba in the Soviet Union. He was part of the PCC delegation to XXV and XXVI Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1977. He attended the World Assembly for Peace, Life and against Nuclear War in 1983, the international scientific conference named The Great October Socialist Revolution and the national liberation movement of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America in 1977 and the VI conference of the Ibero-American Parliament in 1988.
Awards[edit]
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (Soviet Union, 1981)
- Order Lázaro Peña (Cuba, 1983)
See also[edit]
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