Jimenez Antonio Nunez

Definition: Cuban revolutionary and geographer, academician and diplomat.
Years of life: 1923-1998
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Born into a peasant family. In 1940 he became the founder of the Speleological Society of Cuba and led it until 1950. In the same year he graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in history and geography. He took an active part in the student movement. In 1955 he became professor of geography at the Central University of Las Villas in Santa Clara, leaving the chair in 1957 to take part in the guerrilla war against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. In 1958 - the captain of the rebel army, under the leadership of Ernesto Guevara. In 1959 he was appointed vice president of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform, and in 1962 he was elected president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. In 1972 he was sent as ambassador to Peru. Parallel to this, in 1969–72 he was president of the Cuban-Soviet Friendship Association. He defended his second doctoral dissertation at Moscow State University.

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