Oscar Pino Santos

He was born in Banes, Holguín. He completed his secondary education in La Habana and enrolled at the University of La Habana to study Law, although he later decided to graduate as a professional journalist.

He wrote for Hoy, Carteles and for Channel 2 of Television.

At the triumph of the Revolution, he was a proponent of the Agrarian Reform Law project. Between 1960 and 1967, he served as extraordinary ambassador and plenipotentiary of Cuba to the People's Republic of China and, simultaneously, to the Kingdom of Cambodia.

During the seventies, he served as a member or head of Cuban delegations abroad, was a prominent spokesperson for Cuba's positions in various UN bodies and other international forums, such as the Non-Aligned Movement. During that period, he fulfilled invitations to give lectures and participate in numerous seminars at universities and higher education centers in various countries, from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India to, as an associate professor, at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in the United States. He was a lecturer at many other institutions in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe.

At the First Congress held in Algeria, hundreds of delegates from the three continents of underdeveloped countries elected him president of the Association of Economists of the Third World. In Cuba he was founder and first director of the Center for Studies on America and the Center for Research on World Economics.

Since 1981, he was an advisor to the State Council of the Republic of Cuba. Many consider the most important aspect of his work to be his contributions to Cuban historiography, which began with the essay American Imperialism in Cuba's Economy and continued with History of Cuba: Fundamental Aspects, The Assault on Cuba by the Yankee Financial Oligarchy (Essay Prize of Casa de las Américas), Cuba: History and Economy.

His works have appeared in: Casa de las Américas and Temas. Among his works are also: Complot, JFK: Who Killed Him?, The Times of Fidel, Che and Mao: As I Knew Them, Economic Problems of the Third World and the Strategy of Non-Aligned Countries, The New International Economic Order, The Economic Crisis in the United States and Reagan's Policies and Twenty Years of Neoliberal Theories in Latin America: Background and Implications.

Associate Professor at the University of La Habana and Senior Researcher by the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, he was a member of the Association of Writers of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, of the Advisory Commission of the journal Problems of Development and Special Consultant on Latin American Affairs of the Association for the Unity of Our America.