[4] He was considered a close friend of Juan Antonio Samaranch, who became IOC president in 1980.

[6] González was arrested several times for his opposition to the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado and Fulgencio Batista; he joined Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement in 1957.

[2] As head of the Castro-era Cuban Olympic Committee, he was a staunch critic of the United States, leading Cuba's boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (despite the landmark inclusion of baseball as a demonstration sport) and alleging that the 1987 Pan American Games were awarded to Indianapolis over Havana due to pressure from the American State Department.

[7][8][9] Earlier, at the 1972 FIBA Congress, Guerra had challenged the inclusion of the United States and West Germany national teams in the Amateur World Series, arguing that they should not be included because they were not recognized by their country's Olympic committees; this episode precipitated the breakaway of the U.S., Italy, and other federations from FIBA, which would not be resolved until 1976.

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