Armando Valladares, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Armando Valladares

American diplomat and former Cuban prisoner

Date of Birth: 30-May-1937

Place of Birth: Pinar del Rio, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba

Profession: writer, poet, diplomat, human rights activist

Nationality: United States, Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Armando Valladares Perez, born 1937, is an American poet, diplomat, and human rights activist.
In 1960, he was arrested by the Cuban government for conflicting reasons; the Cuban government alleged that he had been complicit in anti-Castro terrorism, while foreign sources regarded his arrest as being due to his protesting communism, leading Amnesty International to name him a prisoner of conscience.
Following his release in 1982, he wrote a book detailing his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Cuban government, and was appointed in 1987 by U.S.
President Ronald Reagan to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.