THE CUBA REVIEW 



Dr. Mario Ruiz de los Llanos 



Argentine Minister 



Dr. Mario Ruiz de los Llanos, Argen- 

 tine Minister to Cuba, has been in the 

 diplomatic service for nineteen years and 

 was just twenty years old when he received 

 his first appointment as second secretary 

 of the Argentine Legation in Rome, in 

 1902. Two years later he was transferred 

 to Paris in the same capacity. At the ex- 

 piration of a year he w-as sent to Rio de 

 Janeiro as first secretary of the Argentine 

 Legation, and was charge d'affaires pro 

 tern for some time there. He was recalled 

 to his country and held the office of as- 

 sistant secretary of foreign relations from 

 1908 to 1912, in which office lie gave proof 

 of diplomatic tact and ability. Later in 

 1912, he was sent as Argentine minister to 

 Paraguay and held that office until 1916. 



In 1916, Dr. Ruiz de los Llanos was 

 transferred to Brazil to represent the Ar- 

 gentine Republic and recently has been 

 appointed Argentine Minister to Cuba. 



Dr. Ruiz de los Llanos was the author 

 of a treaty for free trade between the 

 Argentine and Paraguay, the first treaty 

 of its kind put into effect in South America. 



Sixth Latin Arrterican Medical Congress 



The Bulletin of the Pan American Union 

 for June gives news of the Sixth Latin 



.\merican Medical Congress. Accordin 

 to the plans made in the Fifth Latin Amei 

 ican Medical Congress held in Lima ii 

 1913, the Sixth Congress is to be held ii 

 Habana, November 19-26, 1922. Th 

 President of the Republic has asked Con 

 gress for an appropriation of $35,000 fo 

 expenses related to the congress. Thi 

 Department of State has forwarded invi 

 tations to the various Latin Americai 

 countries and to scientific institutions ii 

 Cuba. 



Revision of Cuban Commercial Law: 



The Code of Commerce at present ir 

 force in Cuba is the outgrowth of the 

 ancient Spanish Code of Commerce whicl: 

 prevailed previous to the establishment oi 

 the Republic. Numerous amendments have 

 been added from time to time, but the 

 basic law is antiquated and unsuited to 

 conditions of modern commerce and of 

 Cuba's development. Particularly during 

 the recent financial crisis the code itself, 

 and even more so its application in prac- 

 tice, led to much criticism in Cuba and 

 abroad. 



The Cuban President recently appointed 

 a codification commission, which met on 

 April 27, 1922, and assigned the important 

 task of revision to several committees 

 presided over by eminent jurists. The sec- 

 tions of the commission and their heads 



Section A: Ci%'il Code and Mortgage Legisla- 

 tion. Chairman, Jose A. del Cueto. 



Section B: Penal Code. Chairman, Ricardo 

 Lancis. 



Section C: Mercantile and Industrial Law. I 

 Chairman, Cosme de la Torriente (author of the 

 so-called Ley Torriente). 



Section D: Civil Procedure. Chairman, 

 Ricardo Diaz. 



Section E: Political, administrative, and 

 municipal legislation. Chairman, Angel C. i 

 Betancourt. 



Section F: Labor Laws. Chairman, Raul de 

 Cardenas. 



Every section (subcommittee) is com- 

 posed of several members, with a secretary 

 and a chairman. 



Dr. Otto Schoenrich has drafted a bill 

 for a new bankruptcy law, copies of which 

 have been sent to the Code Commission 

 of the Senate and to the Codification 

 Commission. 



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