GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ Y SANCHEZ: "Pioneer of 1940 Constitution" by Enrique Llaca

Jurist Politician Diplomat Economist

Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Havana-1919-1934.

Secretary/treasurer-Cuban Society of International Law, 1920.

Legal Counsel to Secretary of State-1925-29

Delegate- VI American International Conference, 1928

Delegate/Technical Counsel-Conference on Conciliation and Arbitrage, Washington-1928

Secretary General-First Pan-American Conference of Municipalities, 1928

Delegate Plenapotentiary-Conference on Trademarks, Washington, 1929

Director of the International American Office for the Protection of Trademarks and Commerce, 1930.

Liberal Party - President-Havana province, 1930

Delegate-IV Pan-American Commercial Conference, Washington, 1931

Secretary of Justice, 1933

Member-House of Representatives, 1938-1942

Technical Advisor-Commission on Foreign Relations for the Senate, 1937

Technical Advisor-Commission for the Study of the New Constitution, 193?

President of the Foreign Relations Commission for the House of Representatives, 1939

Technical Director -Pan-American Commission for Intermuncipalities Cooperation, Chicago-1939

Delegate- VIII American Scientific Congress, Washington-1940

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1940-1941

Cuban delegation head and Sub-Committee President, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Atlantic City, 1943, 1944 and 1945.

G.A.T.T. Chairman Legal Drafting Committee and Tech. Dir., Cuban Delegation) Geneva-1947; (Head of Cuban Delegation) Geneva, Petropolis-1950, 1954.

Head of Cuban delegation, (GATT) Havana Charter, 1948.

President-Junta de Economia de Guerra, 1942.

President-Cuban Maritime Commission, 1942-43.

Ambassador to the United Nations (Security Council)1948.

President-Cuban Delegation, General Assembly, 1949

Technical Director/Secretary/President-National Junta of Economy (Junta Nacional de Economia) 1948-1953.

President-United Nations Economic Committee, 1951.

Minister of Finance (Ministro de Hacienda) 1953-1955.

Special Envoy-O.A.S. Conference of the Presidents, Panama, 1956.

President-Cuban Nuclear Energy Commission, 1956.

President-Ministerial Commission for Tariff Reform, 1958.

Minister of Economy (a.k.a. Ministro Presidente-Consejo Nacional de Economia/National Board of Economy, 1955-1959.

June 3, 2008

"Pioneer of 1940 Constitution" by Enrique Llaca

En 1976 Carlos Marquez-Sterling escribe un articulo en el Diario de las Americas donde dice, "Gustavo había formado parte de la Comisión Bicameral, que redactó el proyecto de Constitución y puedo asegurar que muchas de las instituciones que después se plasmaron en nuestra carta fundamental, se basaron en los estudios previos llevados a cabo por Gustavo Gutierrez."

En un articulo escrito por Perla Cartaya Cotta titulado, "Carlos Marquez-Sterling y la Constituyente de 1940," en la revista digital Palabranueva.net "Revista de la Arquidiosis de La Habana," Octubre / 2009 No. 189, la señora Cartaya Cotta dice, "Pronto quedo constituida una comisión bicameral, es decir, de legisladores de la Camara y del Senado. Y elegido como asesor de la misma, el doctor Gustavo Gutierrez Sanchez, eminente jurista, profesor de Derecho Internacional Publico de la Universidad de La Habana, quien debía ocuparse de la redacción de la ley electoral y del proyecto final de la nueva Constitución."

Para mas información sobre los trabajos del Dr. Gutierrez en cuanto a la Constitución de 1940 por favor ver "Proyecto Nueva Constitución," September, 2009." Tambien "GG New Constitution Project," April 2009.