Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Cuban revolutionary
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Place of Birth: Alquízar, Artemisa Province, Cuba
About Antonio Núñez Jiménez
- Antonio Núñez Jiménez (April 20, 1923 – September 13, 1998) was a Cuban revolutionary and academic.
- Núñez was born in Alquízar, Havana Province.
- In 1950, he received his first doctorate from the University of Havana, and later received a second doctorate from the Lomonosov Moscow State University of Moscow.
- In 1954, he authored Geography of Cuba, that replaced Levi Marrero’s Geografía de Cuba as a standard educational text in Cuba. Núñez served as captain in the revolutionary forces of Che Guevara.
- After former rebel commander Humberto Sorí Marin was executed in April 1961, he took over the position of Minister of Agrarian Reform.
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