Born in Matanzas province, December 17, his family took him to the United States on the outbreak of the Ten Years’ War and thence to Mexico, where his father settled as a sugar planter. When he was 13, he was sent to the United States for his education. Soon after his 1888 graduation from Cornell University as …
*Por: Vicente Morín Aguado La historia republicana de nuestro país muestra un hilo conductor, a veces velado, a veces revelado, entre la criatura en crecimiento llamada revolución y su única madre posible, la Unión Soviética. Tal revolución resultó ser una permuta forzada del sueño martiano por la pesadilla leninista. No había que ser un gran …
Cuba, de la Unión Soviética a Rusia; agua pasada no mueve molino Read More »
President of Cuba, 1909-1913. Born in Sancti Spiritus, he was barely out of school when he joined the rebels in the Ten Years’ War and subsequent Guerra Chiquita. During the Independence War, 1895-1898 he fought in numerous engagements without ever being defeated and ended a major general. Afterwards he became governor of his native Las …
The first president of an independent Cuba, 1902-1906. Born near Bayamo, July 9, he attended schools in Havana and the University of Seville, from where family matters forced his return before graduation. As soon as the Ten Years’ War broke out, he joined the rebels. In 1876 he was elected president of the provisional government, but in 1877 …
Santiago-born entrepreneur, writer, and journalist. At only 24 he was honored by the Liceo of Puerto Principe for his Conveniencia de reservar a la mujer ciertos trabajos. He was imprisoned in1876 for revolutionary activities and deported in 1879. At Ceuta in 1895 during the Independence War, 1895-1898, he was jailed for sending arms to the insurgents. His political …
Revolutionary general, second in command to Máximo Gómez Báez in both the Ten Years’ War and the Independence War of 1895-1898. Born in Holguín, the second of eight children, he was apprenticed to his uncle in Havana and then had to return to the family business, frustrating his ambition to study law. After his marriage to Isabel …
*Por: Vicente Morín Aguado Al hablar durante los actos conmemorativos por los 60 años de relaciones diplomáticas entre ambos países, el embajador cubano en Beijing tuvo un raro arrebato de honestidad al declarar que “Cuba ha acumulado muchas primeras veces en su relación histórica con China.” Dado que la última arrancada va en franco declive, cabe preguntarse: …
Poet, born in Camagüey, she achieved recognition as one of the greatest poets of the Spanish language. She used the pseudonym “La Peregrina” in most of her writings. She excelled in lyric poetry, but also authored plays (Leoncia, Alfonso Munio, etc), and novels (Sab, Espatolino, etc.). She lived in Spain 1836-1859 and from 1864. Her main poetic compositions were Llanto de la cruz, Soledad del …
A much-quoted neoclassical poet, best known for his ode Al Niágara, written in 1824 after a visit to the waterfall. Other well-known poems include En el Teocalli de Cholula (1820), El Himno del desterrado, and A Emilia. His dramatic works include Eduardo IV, o el usurpador clemente (1819), Moctezuma, o los mexicanos, and El campesino espantado. He is alo known for his works in French. …
Former soldier in the Independence War, 1895-1898, who became the leader of the Agrupación Independiente de Color, and who, on May 20, 1912, led several bands of blacks in an uprising against the white-dominated government. Afro-Cuban apologists have claimed the revolt was provoked either by the annexationist Frank Steinhart (hoping for another intervention by the …
