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Witness to the nationalization of private property and erosion of personal liberties by the
Communist regime, he immigrated to the United States in 1959. He dedicated years of public speaking to shed light on the Marxist game plan to divide classes and undermine democracy, warning that what happened
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Menocal's public service career in Cuba include Vice
President of the National Electrical Engineer Association, Director of the Cuban Society of Engineers, President of the Lions Club of Camaguey, member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and President of the National Council of the
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Menocal was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of
Gustavo Garcia Menocal and Emma Ferrer e Infante. He was born into one of the most distinguished families in Latin America. His father, Gustavo Garcia Menocal was a Representative in Congress from the Province of Matanzas, and Lieutenant Colonel in the
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In voluntary exile from Cuba, Menocal assumed duties of a Vice
President in the New York offices of American & Foreign Power. In September 1968, he was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of Compañia Panameña de Fuerza y Luz, the electric, telephone, and gas public utility of the
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From 1961 through 1968 he raised awareness of the experiences of the Cuban
Revolution through public speaking engagements, eventually writing his story in a book, The Lesson the United States Can Learn from Cuba. He cautioned that it was not the illiterate or poor who were responsible for the
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Electric Company in July 1938, and worked his way from the lowest levels of the company to become the first Cuban-born Vice-President and General Manager of the national electric company. In this capacity, Menocal took an active role in the planning and
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downfall of Cuba, but rather a segment of the middle class, academia and a naive group of wealthy individuals too absorbed in their pursuits to take the trouble to understand the underlying
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development of the country's electric industry. In 1959, Menocal resigned from his position in protest of the expropriation of the company's properties, and widespread abuses of civil liberties being perpetrated by the Castro revolutionary regime.
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The Lesson the United States Can Learn from Cuba. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University Press) (New York: MM Wilson) International relations. US relations. Cuba. A speech of 3 January 1964.
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Republic of Panama. He was subsequently promoted to
President on 8 January 1970, and held this position until the nationalization of the utility by the revolutionary government in 1972.
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