Havana, April 19 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez remembered Raúl Roa García, known as the "Foreign Minister of Dignity," on April 18th -- the 113th anniversary of his birth.

The island's top diplomat said that our Foreign Ministry assumes as a constant challenge that of being faithful and consistent with his example.  Bruno Rodríguez wrote on Twitter that "the legacy of the Foreign Minister of Dignity guides Cuban revolutionary diplomacy."

Raúl Roa García was born in Havana and from a very young age he joined the struggle against the tyranny of Gerardo Machado, which led him to found, in 1930, together with other comrades, the University Student Directory.

Later, he separated from that organization due to ideological differences and created, with Gabriel Barceló, Pablo de la Torriente and other revolutionaries, the Student Left Wing, which was very close to the first Communist Party of Cuba.

Raul Roa Garcia suffered prison and exile, was a university professor, a writer and, after Fulgencio Batista's coup d'état in 1952, joined in the struggle against the dictatorship, until he joined the Civic Resistance, which was closely related to the July 26th Movement.

With the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Roa García joined the transformations proposed by the new government and became the island's first foreign minister.