Carlos Alzugaray Treto


Carlos Alzugaray Treto is a Cuban diplomat and educator.

Early life

He is the only child of the lawyer Mario Alzugaray Ramos Izquierdo and Conchita Treto Villaverde. His grandfather was the prominent Abogado-Notario, Carlos Martín Alzugaray Lavaggi. Dr. Alzugaray is married and has three children and five grandchildren.
He studied at the International Division of Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, from 1959 to 1961 and at the University of Havana from 1961 to 1965. He has a bachelor's degrees in Diplomacy and History of Cuba ; a master's degree in Contemporary History and a Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, all from the University of Havana. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the Eisenhower Administration's policy towards the Cuban Revolution 1958–1961.

Career

Since 1980 he has been on the faculty of the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales Raúl Roa García . At the same time, he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Havana.
He has also been a Cuban Foreign Service officer, being posted from 1961 to 1962 as assistant attaché at the Embassy of Cuba in Tokyo, Japan; from 1962 to 1965 as country analyst officer, Directorate for Inter-American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Relations in Havana; from 1965 to 1970 as second secretary at the Embassy of Cuba in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 1971 to 1973 as the department head, Balkan Socialist Countries, Socialist Countries Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in, Havana; in 1971 as secretary of the Cuban delegation, Mixed Intergovernmental Commission for Cuban-Bulgarian Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation in Sophia, Bulgaria; from 1973 to 1977 as first secretary to the Embassy of Cuba in Buenos Aires, Argentina; from 1977 to 1980 as the consul general of Cuba in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; from 1980 to 1983 as deputy director in charge of the Analysis-Department, North American Affairs Directorate in the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Havana; from 1983 to 1987 as minister-counselor to the Embassy of Cuba in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; from 1983 to 1987 as the alternate representative of Cuba to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia; in 1985 adviser of the Cuban Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women in Nairobi, Kenya; from 1988 to 1990 as deputy rector for research and postgraduate studies, Advanced Institute for International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Relations in Havana; from 1990 to 1992 as adviser for United States and Canadian Affairs to the Deputy Minister for Inter-American Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Havana; from 1992 to 1994 as adviser to the Minister on Global Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Havana; in 1993 as member of the official Cuban delegation headed by the Foreign Minister which visited Colombia at the invitation of President César Gaviria; in 1994 as member of the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa and also the coordinator of the group of 20 Cuban observers who participated in this mission to supervise elections in South Africa in April 1995; and from 1994 to 1996 as Ambassador of Cuba to Belgium and Luxembourg and head of the Cuban Mission to the European Union and Communities in Brussels, Belgium.

Foreign policy

Since 1980, he has taught courses on Cuban Foreign Policy, History of the United States, U.S. Foreign Policy, Cuba-United States relations, U.S. Policy for Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin American and Caribbean International Relations and European Integration. In the late 2000s, Alzugaray began teaching a course to foreign undergraduate students from American University in Washington, DC. At present he continues to teach all these courses but only at postgraduate level at both institutions. In 1998 and 1999 he was among the professors and teachers who received the national award for outstanding results from the Cuban Teachers & Scientific Workers' Union.
He is a regular lecturer on current international affairs on U.S. history, politics and foreign relations and on European political developments at the National Defense College in Havana. He has lectured at other universities both in Cuba and overseas, among them in Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Canada, the United States, Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. He headed the Cuban delegation to the Joint Cuban-Nigerian Academic Dialogue on International Affairs in Havana in 1989.
He is participating at present in an academic project involving scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Cuba, coordinated by the Asociación por la Unidad de Nuestra América, with the
objective of producing four books on the historical, economic, socio-cultural and political aspects of Latin American integration and an accompanying atlas. He is also a member of the Greater Caribbean Integration Observatory. Between March and June 2000 he was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
In 2003, he was denied a visa to enter the United States to speak at the Latin American Studies Association's International Congress.

Publications and papers

La política de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba durante la Administración Johnson, in Francisco López Segrera De Eisenhower a Reagan: La política de Estados Unidos contra la Revolución Cubana,, pp. 141–190.La seguridad nacional de Cuba y el diferendo con Estados Unidos, Estudios e Investigaciones del ISRI No. 18,, 49 pages.Problems of National Security in the Cuban-U.S. Historic Breach, in Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Hernández, U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 1990s,, pp. 85–117.Dinámica de la seguridad nacional y regional en la Cuenca del Caribe, in Sistemas políticos: poder y sociedad. Estudios de casos en América Latina,, pp. 21–44.Los estudios internacionales en Cuba, co-author with Professor Roberto González, in Cuadernos de Nuestra América, Vol. XI, No.21., pp. 182–192.Cuban Security in the Post-Cold War World: Old and New Challenges and Opportunities, in Archibald R.M. Ritter y John M. Kirk Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Integration,, pp. 161– 176.Raúl Roa García y la Creación de una Cancillería Revolucionaria 1959-1965,, 34pp..Globalización, Presentation at a Roundtable on the issue of Globalization at the Association of the Unity of Our America in Análisis de Coyuntura, No.2,, pp. 22–42.De la fruta madura a la ley Helms-Burton: auge, decadencia y fracaso de la política imperialista de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba,,, 62 pp.La Asociación de Estados del Caribe : Un reto para la Unión Europea,, in Revista de Estudios Europeos, Vol. XI, No.42,, pp. 30–52.The Association of Caribbean States: A Challenge for the European Union, in Revista de Estudios Europeos, Vol. XI, No.42, 1997,,, pp. 28–49.La política de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba durante 1958 y la caída de la dictadura de Batista,,112 pp..O Fracaso da Politica de Estados Unidos Cara a Cuba e a Lei Helms-Burton. in Galitian in A Trabe de Ouro, Tomo I, Año IX, No.33, Xaneiro-Febreiro-Marzo, 1998,, pp. 61–80.Crónica de un fracaso imperial: La política de la administración Eisenhower hacia Cuba durante 1958 y el derrocamiento de la dictadura de Batista, La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1999, 218 pp.Cuba y el Mundo en 1998- El Año del Tigre,, in Análisis de Coyuntura, Año 2, No.2,, March 1998, pp. 8–20.A dos años de la aprobacion de la Helms-Burton: Las tribulaciones de una ley universalmente repudiada, in América Nuestra, Ano IV, No.2, March/ April 1998, pp. 40–44.Globalización e Integración Regional en América Latina y el Caribe: un estado del debate, in Temas: Cultura, Ideología y Sociedad, No. 14, April/June 1998,.Crónica de un fracaso imperial: Estados Unidos y el derrocamiento de la dictadura de Batista, in Santiago, May/September 1998, pp. 20–32,.Cuba and the United States, in Selected Discussion Threads, H-DIPLO: DIPLOMATIC HISTORY,.La Administración Eisenhower y la formación de la política de Estados Unidos hacia la Revolución Cubana 1958-1961, 198 pp.El desafío social de la globalización y la integración regional en América Latina y el Caribe, in Francisco Rojas Aravena,Globalización, América Latina y la Diplomacia de Cumbres,, pp. 443–460.El ocaso de un régimen neocolonial: Estados Unidos y la dictadura de Batista durante 1958,, in Temas: Cultura, Ideología y Sociedad, No.16-17, October 1998/March 1999, pp. 29–41.La Asociación de Estados del Caribe y la Unión Europea : Los desafíos mutuos de una relación asimétrica. Documento de Trabajo No 40, 50 pp.Can There Be a Normalization of Relations Between Cuba and the United States?, Paper presented at the 1999 Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington, February, 1999.Inequidad vs. Gobernabilidad, in Juventud Rebelde, 31 October 1999, p. 6.Las Cumbres lberoamericanas y la agenda de gobernabilidad, integración y seguridad en América Latina y el Caribe, in Cuba Socialista, 3ra. Época, No 15, pp. 42–46.Las relaciones internacionales de Cuba 1961-1965, in Historia de Cuba: La Revolución 1959-1989,.Cuba y el sistema internacional en la década de los '90, in Emilio Duharte,Problemas Actuales de teoría sociopolítica,.Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Crossroads: The Contrasting Strategies of Regional Integration, in Pensamiento Propio, Nueva Época, Ano 4, No.10, Managua, Nicaragua: Julio-Diciembre, 1999.Regionalismo, integración y relaciones interamericanas, in América Nuestra, No.1, Enero-marzo 2000, Año VI, Nueva Época, págs. 10-17.Gobernabilidad, seguridad y relaciones interamericanas: una crítica del paradigma liberal, in Cenários, social science journal of the Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Brasil.De la Fruta Madura a la Ley Helms Burton: Auge, Decadencia y Fracaso de la Políítica Imperialista de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba Cronica de un Fracaso Imperial: la Administracióón Eisenhower y el Derrocamiento de la Dictadura de Batista
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