Carlos Saladrigas Zayas

Carlos Saladrigas Zayas was a Cuban politician and diplomat.

He was an abogado-notario

Civil law notary

Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State...

 who served as Senator (1936-1940), Minister of Justice (1934), Foreign Minister

Foreign relations of Cuba

Cuba's once-ambitious foreign policy has been down sized as a result of economic hardship after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner Cuba was comparatively isolated in the 1990s, but has since entered bilateral co-operation with several...

 (1933) and (1955-1956), Prime Minister of Cuba

Prime Minister of Cuba

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 (1940-1942), Ambassador to Great Britain

Great Britain

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, and presidential candidate in the elections of 1944.

He was the son of Enrique Saladrigas Lunar and María Luisa Zayas y Diago. He married his wife, María de las Mercedes González-Llorente y Martínez in 1923 and they had two children, Gloria and Carlos Saladrigas y González-Llorente. He later married Esperanza Plasencia y del Peso and lastly Cusa Carrillo.