Julio Antonio Mella (1905-1929)
Nom de guerre of Nicanor McPortland, a principal leader of the reform movement of the 1920s. He became a powerful speaker and anti-American agitator at the University of Havana where he founded (and was elected secretary-general of) the Federación Estudiantil Universitaria. He also established the Universidad Popular José Martí. Mella shared with his fellow students a desire to …