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(CCI) media emporium in Puerto Rico, previously serving at Casiano as Editor of

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, the U.S. territory's only weekly business newspaper, from 1999 to 2004. He is currently a private consultant.http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n48/CBCimadevilla.html Cimadevilla is a ''magna cum laude'' 1983 graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and a

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1986 ''Juris Doctor'' graduate. While in college, he served as editor of the

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, and he clerked at the McConnell, Valdés law firm in San Juan, Puerto Rico and at the

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law firm in New York City. A supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico, Cimadevilla was active in the

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. After law school, Cimadevilla practiced law in the United States and abroad, specializing in international trade and regulation at the Baker & McKenzie law firm in Washington DC for four years, as well as serving as International Legal Counsel at the Fabregat & Bermejo law firm in Madrid, Spain, dealing with corporate and international trade law. For over six years, he served the government of Puerto Rico, first as the U.S. territory's Assistant Secretary of State for Caribbean Basin Affairs under Secretary of State

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from 1993 to 1995, and as Chief Economic Development Officer at the

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from 1995 to 1996. In 1997 he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Department. Concurrently, from 1995 until he left government service in 1999, he was a member of the Puerto Rico Business Review editorial board, after which he joined Casiano Communications. Cimadevilla has branched out into political and news analysis and is featured in TV and radio talk shows, including the highly rated "En la Mirilla" daily PM drive-time news analysis program produced by political analyst

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for the Notiuno radio network. He has been invited to speak before different groups, the most recent of which was the San Juan

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in December, 2007.

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