Jorge Mas Santos parents: Meet Jorge Mas Canosa & Irma Santos

Jorge Mas Santos’ parents: Meet Jorge Mas Canosa and Irma Santos – Jorge Mas Santos, an American billionaire businessman, was born in 1963 to Jorge Mas Canosa and Irma Santos.

• Jorge Mas Canosa

Jorge Mas Canosa’s father was a Cuban-American businessman who established the Cuban American National Foundation and MasTec, a publicly traded company.

Canosa was a successful businessman and politician.

Canosa was the primary force behind the founding of both Radio Marti and TV Marti, and President Ronald Reagan put him in the advisory group.

He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army in the early 1960s after being prepared by the CIA for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

The Cuban-American National Foundation, led by Canosa, was chastised for its role in covert operations in Cuba.

Canosa was also involved in several major scandals and standoffs with the United States government.

For example, according to CIA data from the National Security Archive, Mas Canosa paid $5000 to Luis Posada Carriles to cover the costs of a demolition operation in Mexico.

According to Luis Posada Carriles, Mas Canosa sponsored Carrile’s escape from a maximum-security prison in Venezuela in 1985, where he was imprisoned for being the intellectual architect of the explosion of a Cuban airplane that killed 73 passengers.

• Who was Luis Posada Carriles? 

Carilles was a Central Intelligence Agency operative and a Cuban exile militant. The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States and the Government of Cuba, among others, regarded him as a terrorist.

Born on 21 September 1939, Canosa passed away on 24 November 1997 at age 58.

Canosa and his wife Irma had three children.

• Irma Santos

There is no information on Irma Santos.

Source: abtc.ng