Background
Vargas was the son of Pedro Vargas and Margarita Gomez-Toro (the daughter of General Maximo Gomez).
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Education
Vargas attended only that one semester and his photograph is not included in the 1937-1938 yearbook, although the name "Andrew Vargas" is listed under the names of students whose images do not appear in the class panels.
Career
In December 1935, he was appointed chancellor of the Cuban consulate in Key West, Florida, and in September 1936 was assigned to the Cuban consulate in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the fall semester of 1937 he enrolled as a freshman in the Literary course of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tulane University.
Vargas returned to Havana in July 1938 to work in the Foreign Ministry.
He enrolled in the University of Havana School of Law and graduated in 1944. They had no children of their own.
In 1955, Vargas married Maria Teresa de la Campa y Roff (the daughter of Batista"s Foreign Minister, Miguel Ángel de la Campa y Caraveda), who had two children from a previous marriage. He initially served in Fidel Castro"s government in 1959 as the Cuban delegate to the United Nations European offices in Geneva.
He went to exile in Coral Gables, Florida in April 1960.
Vargas became involved in the planning of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, serving as the director of a clandestine radio station. He was sentenced to death by firing squad, but his sentenced was commuted to 20 years after his mother, a revolutionary activist, pleaded on his behalf. Vargas served 20 years and seven months before being released on December 25, 1982.
From 1986-1999, he wrote a column for El Nuevo Herald.
He died of kidney failure on January 13, 2003 in his home in Coral Gables.
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Cuba