Cuban Studies Institute

President of Cuba. 1921-1925.  Born in Havana, he received his law degree from the University of Havana at age 22 and was also a writer and orator.  Like most Cubans […]

Born in Bayamo, Cuba.  A leader in the Ten Years’ War (despite being son-in-law to former Spanish governor Kindelán), who freed his slaves and gave his substantial fortune to the

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

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

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

Poet and journalist, born in the Matanzas suburb of Pueblo Nuevo on March 3.  He first appeared in print at 16 when some of his verses were published in a

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

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

Brother-in-law of Domingo del Monte and the most famous member of a prominent sugar planter family (Domingo de Aldama was his father).  By the 1860s the Aldamas were firmly entrenched in

A Camagüey-born revolutionary, he lived and studied in Havana until his father fell ill and he had to return to run the family business.  Early in life he showed his liberal