Alcibiades Hidalgo Basulto (born in 1946) was Raúl Castro

Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who has been President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008; he previously exercised presidential powers in an acting capacity from 2006 to 2008...

's Chief of Staff for twelve years and also served as Deputy Foreign Minister. Later he served as Cuba

Cuba

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's ambassador to the United Nations

United Nations

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 (1992-1994) replacing Ricardo Alarcón. He defected to the United States in 2002 and claimed that "virtually every member of Castro's UN mission is an intelligence agent." "Cuba is, pure and simple, a dictatorship

Dictatorship

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 each day more devoid of the attributes that once made it attractive."

Mr. Hidalgo graduated from the University of Havana

University of Havana

The University of Havana or UH is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Founded in 1728, the University of Havana is the oldest university in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas...

 with a degree in journalism

Journalism

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. He was editor-in-chief of the Cuban newspaper Trabajadores. He is divorced and has a daughter, Carolina (b 1991).