Cuba
Alberto M. Fernandez: From Cuba to American Diplomacy
Came from Cuba as a refugee in 1959 and spent a career as a public diplomacy officer in the Middle East.
- Fled
- Cuba
- Status
- Refugee
- Arrived in the U.S.
- 1959
- Service
- Senior Foreign Service; chargé d'affaires in Sudan; Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea; Coordinator for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications
- Region
- Cuba
Alberto Fernandez came to the United States as a refugee from Cuba in 1959. He served in the U.S. Army before joining the Foreign Service.
Much of his career was spent in public diplomacy in the Arab world, with tours in Syria, Jordan, and Afghanistan and in Guatemala. He directed public diplomacy for Iraq, served as chargé d'affaires in Sudan, and was later Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea and Coordinator for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications.
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