Cuban Studies Institute

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

Intellectual, historian and political adviser to President Gerardo Machado.  He influenced post-independence Cuba as director of the Escuela Normal de la Habana, as superintendent of schools, and through his writings, generally

President of Cuba, May 20 – December 24, 1936. Born in Sancti Spíritus, son of future president José Miguel Gómez y Gómez, the younger Gómez was active in politics at

Journalist and public man.  Born in Matanzas, July 12, he became, at an early age, active in the campaign for independence.  He went to Paris and studied engineering, but, needing

Young revolutionary of the Generation of 1930, the founder and leader of the Joven Cuba movement and active in the struggle against the Gerardo Machado dictatorship.  He had considerable influence in the

President of Cuba, 1933-1934, 1944-1948.  Born in Pinar del Río, September 13, he dreamed of becoming a physician, although his father, a prosperous tobacco grower, wanted him to continue his

President of Cuba, 1925-1933.  Born in Santa Clara, September 28, he spent his childhood in the family cattle estate, attended private schools and in his early 20s engaged in growing