Cuban Studies Institute

The Cuban Studies Institute (Instituto de Estudios Cubanos) is a research, non-profit center, that disseminates the reality about Cuba and its foreign policy.

Bartolomé Masó y Márquez (1830-1907)

Vice-president of the rebel government during the Independence War, 1895-1898 and then briefly president, October 10-December 31, 1898.  Born in Manzanillo, Oriente province, he served as assistant to General Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y del Castillo during the Ten Years’ War (1868-1878), becoming the rebels’ secretary of war.  He was captured in the Guerra Chiquita …

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Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Marqués de Santa Lucía (1828-1914)

Independent leader and statesman, born February 10 in Camagüey to the wealthy Agustín Cisneros Quesada, Marquis of Santa Lucia, and Ángela Gregoria Betancourt y Betancourt.  As a young man he was imprisoned in Spain for his support of the independence movement of Joaquín de Agüero.  He led the conspiracy in Camagüey, which culminated in the …

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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y del Castillo (1819-1874)

Padre de la Patria (“Father of our Country”), lawyer and revolutionary, who began the Ten Years’ War for Independence in 1868, and the following year became the president of a provisional government.  Born April 18, in Bayamo to a wealthy landowner, he attended secondary school in Havana, and then the University of Havana.  Returning home to …

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Carlos Baliño (1848-1926)

As a tobacco worker in Florida during the 1890s, he represented the escogedores (tobacco leaf selectors) in the Cuban independence movement and directed Tampa’s La Tribuna del pueblo.  A follower of Martí, in 1892 he signed the Bases, a document outlining the ideas and program of Martí’s Partido Revolucionario Cubano.  After Independence, Baliño moved to Cuba.  Although originally a believer …

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Francisco de Arango y Parreño (1765-1837)

A Creole planter and economist who co-founded, with Captain General Luis de Las Casas, the influential Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, the Consulado de Agricultura y Comercio de La Habana (to further the sugar growers’ interests), and the Papel periódico, Cuba’s first nenwspaper.  The Haitian revolution, which destroyed that country’s sugar industry, broke out when …

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Marta Abreu (Marta Abreu y Arencibia de Estévez, 1846-1909)

Philanthropist.  Born in Santa Clara to a very wealthy family, she believed that great wealth implied a duty and should be used for social welfare.  She paid for the construction of a large theater in Santa Clara and donated it to the city so that the income would support schools and facilities for the poor.  She not only …

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