Ernesto Dihigo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ernesto Dihigo

Cuban politician

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1896

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1991

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Ernesto Dihigo

  • Ernesto Dihigo y López Trigo (23 January 1896 – 1991) was a prominent Cuban jurist, diplomat, and professor.
  • He served as the Cuban Foreign Minister during the administration of the presidency of Carlos Prio Socarras (1950-1951).
  • He served as the Cuban Ambassador to the United States from January 1959 until February 1961 after the regime of Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro. Dihigo was a member of the Cuban Supreme Court in 1943 and served as a delegate to the United Nations.
  • He served on the commission that wrote the Declaration of Human Rights.
  • Dihigo's draft declaration was among the first considered when the U.N.
  • Commission on Human Rights began work in 1946.
  • He also pushed successfully for the Organization of American States to adopt its own American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and to establish an inter-American human-rights court. From 1917 he was associated with the University of Havana beginning as a student.
  • He served as Professor of Roman Law until 1960.
  • In September 1955 he was a member of the Buraimi Arbitration Tribunal sitting in Geneva to adjudicate on a territorial dispute in south-eastern Arabia.
  • Together with the British representative and chairman on the tribunal he resigned in protest over Saudi tactics before the tribunal made a final decision. In 1989, he travelled from his home in Havana to Miami and was given a luncheon by the Colegio de Abogados de La Habana en el Exilio. He was married to Caridad Larrondo.
  • They lived at Calle 46 #116, esquina 3 Avenue, Miramar, Havana, Cuba.
  • He died in Miami, Florida, in 1991.

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