Ernesto Dihigo y López Trigo (23 January 1896 – 1991) was a prominent

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, and

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. He served as the Cuban

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during the administration of the presidency of

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(1950-1951). He served as the Cuban Ambassador to the United States from January 1959 until February 1961 after the regime of

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was overthrown by

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. Dihigo was a member of the Cuban Supreme Court in 1943 and served as a delegate to the

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. He served on the commission that wrote the 1948

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. Dihigo's draft declaration was among the first considered when the U.N. Commission on Human Rights began work in 1946. He also pushed successfully for the Organization of American States to adopt its own American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and to establish an inter-American human-rights court. From 1917 he was associated with the

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beginning as a student. He served as Professor of Roman Law until 1960. In September 1955 he was a member of the

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Arbitration Tribunal sitting in Geneva to adjudicate on a territorial dispute in south-eastern Arabia. Together with the British representative and chairman on the tribunal he resigned in protest over Saudi tactics before the tribunal made a final decision. In 1989, he travelled from his home in Havana to Miami and was given a luncheon by the Colegio de Abogados de La Habana en el Exilio. He was married to Caridad Larrondo. They lived at Calle 46 #116, esquina 3 Avenue, Miramar, Havana, Cuba. He died in Miami, Florida, in 1991.

References

* El Nuevo Herald; Abogados Cubanos en Exilio Honran a Un Antiguo Professor; 19 February 1989 Page 1B. * (Spanish) Cuban diplomats Cuban judges 1896 births 1991 deaths People from Havana Ambassadors of Cuba to the United States Permanent Representatives of Cuba to the United Nations Foreign ministers of Cuba University of Havana alumni University of Havana people 1950s in Cuba 20th-century Cuban lawyers 20th-century Cuban politicians {{Cuba-law-bio-stub