Jorge Luis Echarte y Mazorra (17 February 1891, in Havana, Cuba – July 1979, in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA)[1] was a Cuban architect, engineer, diplomat and minister. He served as the Cuban Minister of Public Works (1935–1936) and as the Foreign Minister (1936–1937) during the presidency of José Agripino Barnet.
One of his most prominent projects Echarte designed was the home of Alberto de Armas on the Quinta Avenida in 1926, which in 2008 was being restored.
Echarte was married to Carmen Romero Ochoterena, and together they had three children: Jorge, Luis, and Maria Teresa Echarte Romero.
In October 1960, one year and ten months after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, Echarte and his family were forced to go into exile in Miami, Florida.
He died from natural causes in that city in July 1979 at the age of 88.
References and external links
edit- Otero, Juan Joaquin (1954). Libro De Cuba, Una Enciclopedia Ilustrada Que Abarca Las Artes, Las Letras, Las Ciencias, La Economia, La Politica, La Historia, La Docencia, Y ElProgreso General De La Nacion Cubana - Edicion Conmemorative del Cincuentenario de la Republica de Cuba, 1902–1952. (Spanish)
