Carlos Lechuga Hevia

Cuban journalist and diplomat. Founder of Cuban revolutionary diplomacy. Last Ambassador of Cuba in the Organization of American States (OAS). Representative of the Island in the United Nations (UN) during the October Crisis. Until 2001 he was a member of the Geneva-based Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, for which he was elected in 1990 and re-elected in 1994 and 1998. On two occasions in the sixties he interrupted his diplomatic work, when he was appointed president of the National Council of Culture and holding the post of Deputy Secretary General of the Solidarity Organization for Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL). For his outstanding work, he received the "Cuban Critics Award" in 1992, and the "José Martí National Journalism Award" in 2007.