Isabel Allende Karam
Isabel Allende Karam is a Cuban diplomat, ambassador, and former translator. She now works as the rector of the ISRI, Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales of Cuba.[1]
Biography
Allende studied in Czechoslovakia at the Charles University in Prague[2] and worked for both the Cuban Cultural Center in Prague and the Cuban embassy in Czechoslovakia.[3]
She was Fidel Castro's translator during his trip to Prague, desk officer for Czechoslovakia (1969–70) at MINREX (Cuba's foreign ministry), then director of its department for Central European socialist countries, Cuba's ambassador to Poland (1988–91),[2] Spain (1999–2000)[4] and Russia.[1] In 1996 she was Deputy Foreign Minister, in which capacity she took part in the negotiations leading to Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit to Cuba.[5]
References
- Yofre 2014, p. 309.
- Bortlová, Hana. "Hospodářské vztahy Kuby a Československa v 60. až 80. letech" [Economic Relations of Cuba and Czechoslovakia in 1960–80] (PDF) (in Czech). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- Yofre 2014, p. 282.
- "Representaciones Cubanas en el Exterior 2000" [Cuba's Representatives Abroad 2000] (in Spanish). Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba. Archived from the original on April 7, 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- Warakomska 1998, p. 62.
Works cited
- Warakomska, Dorota (1998). Ostatnia Wyspa Komunizmu: Jan Paweł II na Kubie: Styczeń 1998 [The Last Island of Communism: John Paul II in Cuba: January 1998] (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Znak. ISBN 978-8-37-006801-1.
- Yofre, Juan B. (2014). Fue Cuba: La infiltración cubano-soviética que dio origen a la violencia [It Was Cuba: The Cuban-Soviet Infiltration That Gave Rise to Violence] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina. ISBN 978-9-50-074938-1.