Roberto J. Suárez de Cárdenas (March 5, 1928 – July 6, 2010) was the

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President of

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. Suárez was born in

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, and was educated and graduated from the Colegio de Belén in 1946.The International Jesuit Alumni Directory Belen (Forum Press Inc., 1994) He attended

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and the

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. He first went into exile in 1958 in connection with political activities against the regime of Cuban dictator

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. Suarez fled Cuba permanently in 1961 after

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came to power, arriving in Miami with just $5 in his pocket and a small duffel bag of clothes. He started work in the mailroom at The Miami Herald loading newspapers in distribution trucks and inserting supplements by hand into the body of the paper. He subsequently worked his way up and left the Herald to become general manager of the

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in the 1970s. He returned to Miami and the Herald, continuing to work his way up until he became the president of the Miami Herald Publishing Co. In 1987, he started El Nuevo Herald, the Miami Herald's Spanish-language daily, with a separate staff that wrote in Spanish. He retired in 1995 as both the Herald's president emeritus and the publisher of El Nuevo Herald. Suárez was the son of Miguel Amado Suarez-de Leon (the owner of the Gran Stadium del Cerro) and Esperanza de Cardenas-Carricaburu, and was married to Miriam Campuzano. They had twelve children, Roberto (born 1952), Miriam, Elena, Antonio (died 2007), Miguel, Carlos, Armando (1958 – 2007), Raul, Maria Teresa, Gonzalo, Esperanza, and Ana Maria.

References

* ''THE MIAMI HERALD'', June 20, 1990, 1A * ''THE MIAMI HERALD'', May 16, 2007, 5B * ''Anuario Social de La Habana 1939'', (Luz-Hilo, S.A.) * ''Directorio Social de La Habana 1948'', (P. Fernandez y Cia, S. en C.) * ''Libro de Oro de la Sociedad Habanera 1949'', (Editorial Lex) * ''Libro de Oro de la Sociedad Habanera 1950'', (Editorial Lex) * ''Registro Social de La Habana 1958'', (Molina y Cia, S.A.)

External links

"Roberto Suarez, Founder of El Nuevo Herald, Dies at 82," Bruce Weber, The New York Times, 9 July 2010
{{DEFAULTSORT:Suarez, Roberto 1928 births 2010 deaths Cuban expatriates in the United States Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in Florida Deaths from dementia in Florida Villanova University alumni University of Havana alumni