Miguel Brugueras

{{Short description|Cuban politician and diplomat}}

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| name = Miguel Brugueras

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| office1 = Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Cuba

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| office2 = Ambassador of Cuba to Argentina

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| office3 = Ambassador of Cuba to Panama

| term3 = 1977-1979

| office4 = Ambassador of Cuba to Lebanon

| term4 = 1974-1977

| birth_name = Miguel Brugueras del Valle

| birth_date = {{birth year|1939}}

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| death_date = {{death year and age|2006|1939}}

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| children = 2, including Tania

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Miguel Brugueras del Valle (1939–2006) was a Cuban politician and diplomat, and a "devout fidelista".{{cite book|author=Ann Louise Bardach|title=Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_BCdYfwqGQC&pg=PA13|accessdate=21 February 2018|date=6 October 2009|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-8007-2|page=13}}

During the dictatorship of Batista he was an activist.{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/10/tania-bruguera-cuban-artist-fights-free-expression-160930124023219.html|title=Tania Bruguera: Cuban artist fights for free expression|first=Carlos Manuel|last=Alvarez|date=|website=www.aljazeera.com|accessdate=21 February 2018}} In 1959, he became a diplomat.

Brugueras was a diplomat in Paris (1973–1974), then Ambassador to Lebanon (1974–1977), Panama (1977–1979) and Argentina,{{cite web|last1=Bass|first1=Nicole|title=Biography by Nicole Bass|url=http://www.taniabruguera.com/cms/files/note_bio_machado_for_nicole_1.pdf|website=www.taniabruguera.com|accessdate=20 November 2016|archive-date=19 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119050620/http://www.taniabruguera.com/cms/files/note_bio_machado_for_nicole_1.pdf|url-status=dead}} and later Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism. He directed the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina.

In 1979, Brugueras and his wife divorced due to political differences, and she and their two daughters returned to Cuba.

His daughter Tania Bruguera is an artist.