Por: Vicente Morín Aguado PROLOGO. Este 29 de septiembre, Yunior García Olivera, dramaturgo y artista cubano, líder visible del proyecto mediático opositor Archipiélago, publicó en la página de igual nombre del grupo: “La marcha cívica por el cambio, convocada para el 20 de noviembre, es un derecho legítimo que debe ser conquistado. En más de …
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Havana-born poet, essayist, and lawyer. Attracted early to writing, he helped found the literary magazines Verbum (1937), Espuela de plata (1939), and Orígenes (1944) while at the University of Havana. Possessed of an extensive culture and immense vocabulary, he attempted to create a universal poetic system in the collections Muerte de Narciso (1937), La Fijeza (1949), and Dador (1960). His Paradiso (1966) is considered one of the most important …
Cuban painter born in Sagua la Grande of Chinese and Black parents. His contact with African, Chinese, and Spanish culture in his birthplace was recreated in such paintings as La Jungla where Western details combined with exotic and mystic tones of Africa and China. He studied in the Academia de San Alejandro and held several exhibitions in Havana in …
Pianist and composer. A child prodigy who is known to have played the piano at the age five. He had a superb technique as a pianist, giving piano recitals and popularizing Cuban and Afro-Cuban melodies in North and South America, France, and Spain. His most famous composition is the operetta María la O; others include El Cafetal, …
Founder of the Partido del Pueblo (Ortodoxo). Son of a wealthy Santiago engineer, “Eddy” became a prominent student leader, and one of the originators of the Directorio Estudiantil Universitario. Graduating in law, his sharp criticism of Gerardo Machado’s government led to imprisonment, December 1931-December 1932, followed by exile in Miami. He returned following Machado’s downfall to support the …
Eduardo René Chibás y Ribas Agramonte (1907-1951) Read More »
President of Cuba, 1948-1952. Born in Bahía Honda, he became involved in politics at an early age, becoming active in the Directorio Estudiantil Universitario while studying law at the University of Havana in the 1930s. He was elected to the constitutional convention of 1939 and to the senate in 1940. He served as prime minister in 1945 …
President of Cuba, 1940-44 and Dictator, 1952-1958 and Cuban strong man from the Sergeants’ revolt of 1933 to the Revolution of 1959. Born in Banes, Oriente province, January 16, the son of a sugar cane cutter, he spent his early years in poverty and attended a Quaker missionary school. After leaving school he worked as …
President of Cuba, January 15-17, 1934. Born March 21, he participated in World War I aboard the U.S.S. Missouri and graduated in engineering at Annapolis Naval Academy in 1919. On his return to Cuba, he entered politics, opposing President Machado to the extent of leading an expedition defeated at Gibara. In 1933 President Grau appointed …
Mulatto poet from Camagüey who emphasized the African contribution to Cuban society and is credited with originating Cuban negrismo. Long before the Revolution of 1959 he protested American domination and social injustice. After his father, a Partido Liberal senator and newspaper editor, was killed in the Chambelona uprising, he began supporting his family as a printer. In 1919 his first …
Nicolás Guillén (Nicolás Guillén Batista, 1902-1989) Read More »
* Staff Report Although President Barack Obama removed Cuba in 2015 from the U.S. State Department list of countries supporting terrorism, and President Trump included it again in 2020, the Cuban regime continues to collaborate with terrorist groups and countries, and harbors U.S., Spanish, and Colombian terrorists in the island. Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela have …
