Cuban Studies Institute

Lawyer.  As president of the Cuban bar association, he supported the call for President Fulgencio Batista to step down in1956.  He was also influential in the so-called Diálogo Cívico, intended to […]

Painter. Born June 23, on the outskirts of Havana, he was an only child. His painting influences were derived from his growing up beside the sea. At age 16 he

Pioneer feminist, she founded the Alianza Nacional Feminista in 1920 and the first women’s club, the Lyceum, in 1929, with co-founder Berta Arocena de Martínez Márquez. Her aims were political (female suffrage),

Politician, poet, and short story writer, born December 20 in Alquizar, Havana province.  He became a doctor of civil law of the University of Havana in 1913.  He wrote his

Journalist, diplomat, and author, born in the Cuban legation in Lima, Peru, to distinguished parents from a Camagüey family.  In 1900 he was secretary to Gonzalo de Quesada during the

A poet of the negrismo school who later became a leader of the Partido Socialista Popular.  He obtained a doctorate of Civil and public law at the University of Havana, took part in

One of Cuba’s most distinguished intellectuals, whose writings criticized civic indolence and the passive acceptance of American tutelage over political and economic life.  Born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba.  In

Student leader and revolutionary, also known as “Manzanita,” born in Cárdenas, where he attended the Marist Brothers’ school and the public high school.  He entered the University of Havana’s architecture

Leading Cuban painter, born in Havana, he was educated in Cuba and Mexico.  He executed several murals in Cuba and Puerto Rico.  Many of his works have been shown also

Powerful sugar baron with 14 ingenios in Oriente province whose plantation, Niquero, served as a rendezvous for bands of Fidel Castro’s forces.  Lobo gave Batista’s opposition $50,000 in 1957, although not specifically to