Joe Garcia. Director of the Cuban American National Foundation . Coordinator of the Exodus program created by CANF. Nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact and Diversity of the Department of Energy of the United States .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 2 Studies
- 1 Services
- 3 Counterrevolutionary work
- 1 Cuban American National Foundation
- 4 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born on October 12 , 1963 in the United States . Married to Aileen Maria Ugalde, Legal Director of the University of Miami . They have a daughter named Gabriela.
Studies
He graduated in 1982 from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School and attended Miami-Dade Community College before earning his degree in political science and public affairs from the University of Miami in 1987 where he was elected president of the student government. In 1991 he obtained his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami at the School of Law in 1991.
Services
He served on the Florida Public Utilities Commission (FPSC), was president of the National Association of Utility Regulation Commissioners (NARUC). He was also second vice president of the Southeastern Association of Utility Regulation Commissioners (SEARUC). He was also appointed to the Federal-State Federal Communications Commission of the Joint Committee on Universal Service and a member of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO).
He served on the council of the Spanish for the American League Against Discrimination (SALAD) and on the board of directors of Regis House, a drug addiction treatment and prevention center for downtown Miami youth. Garcia is a member of the board of directors of the Cuban American National Foundation , and is a past president. He is currently the director of the New Democrat Network Center for Hispanic Strategy, and the chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party.
In 2009 , Garcia joined the Obama administration as director of the Department of Energy’s Office for Minority Economic Impact.
Counterrevolutionary labor
Cuban American National Foundation
In 1988 he held the position of coordinator of the Exodus program created by the Cuban American National Foundation , which transferred to the United States about 10,000 Cuban emigrants residing in Spain , Panama , Peru , Venezuela , Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic , among other countries. He traveled to more than twenty nations in such function. The program was denounced for corruption.
Under the tutelage of Jorge Mas Canosa, he ran in 1992 for the position of Commissioner in Dade County, Hialeah, but was defeated by Miguel Díaz de la Portilla, whose motto was: “Whoever votes for me, votes against the foundation.”
In late 1992 and early 1993 , he traveled to Moscow , accompanied by Roberto Martín Pérez , to also organize the transfer of Cuban emigrants residing in Russia. Both met with officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , in this country, immigration and with the Russian Deputy Minister of the Interior.
On May 19 of the 2000 he was appointed at a salary of $ 120,000 a year as executive director of the CANF terrorist replacing Francisco José Hernández Calvo .
This appointment was considered one of the organization’s measures to try to reverse the cracking of the foundation’s image after the kidnapping of Elián González .
