Jorge Bolaños Bolaños , Foreign Affairs First Vice Minister

Date and birthplace: November 7, 1936, Las Tunas, Cuba

Secondary education: Holguín, Cuba; Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Higher Level studies: Graduated in Political Sciences and International Law, University of Havana; Postgraduate Course in Foreign Relations, London University, United Kingdom.

Labor record:
1959 and 1963: Member of the National Board of the Union of Banks and Insurances

1963: Country Specialist, Chief of Department in the Foreign Affairs Ministry

1964: Staff Director Foreign Affairs Ministry

1965-1968: First Secretary, Embassy of Cuba in London

1968-1971: Director of Western Europe Countries Division of the Foreign Affairs Ministry

1971: Ambassador of Cuba to Poland

1974: Ambassador of Cuba to Czechoslovakia

1977: Ambassador of Cuba to the United Kingdom of the Great Britain and North Ireland

1981: Foreign Affairs Vice Minister

1986: Ambassador of Cuba to Brazil

1994: Foreign Affairs Vice Minister

1995: Foreign Affairs First Vice Minister

2001: Ambassador of Cuba to Mexico

Badges

Cuba

. Underground Combatant Medal
. 20th Anniversary of the Revolution Medal
. Enrique Hart Order
. 30th FAR Anniversary Medal
. 40th FAR Anniversary Medal

Foreign Orders

. Poland: National Order of Merit with degree of Great Knight Commander
. Czechoslovakia: Order Julius Fucik; Friendship Medal; Army Medal and Militias Medal
.United Kingdom: Queen's Isabel II Jubilee Medal
. Brazil: Order Cruzeiro do Sul in degree of Great Knight Commander; First Class Order of Merit of
Brasilia; Medal of Merit Pedro Ernesto of the State of Rio de Janeiro
.He was also awarded with several distinctions and national and international diplomas