Roberto Luque Escalona

Roberto Luque Escalona was born in Holguin, Cuba in 1936. He attended the University of Havana School of Law, but interrupted those studies during the final years of the Batista regime. He resumed his studies in the field of history at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1961 he returned to Cuba and entered the diplomatic corps to work at the Cuban Institute of Friendship Among the Peoples. For several years thereafter, he served as journalist for Prensa Latina. He has...See more

Roberto Luque Escalona was born in Holguin, Cuba in 1936. He attended the University of Havana School of Law, but interrupted those studies during the final years of the Batista regime. He resumed his studies in the field of history at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1961 he returned to Cuba and entered the diplomatic corps to work at the Cuban Institute of Friendship Among the Peoples. For several years thereafter, he served as journalist for Prensa Latina. He has served in the editorial department of Revista de Economia y Desarrollo of the University of Havana. This is his first book. See less