Society

Jorge Armando Chacón Alfonso

Jorge Alfonso, el Yoyo

===BODY=== Jorge Alfonso, as he was known (1945-2011), developed his professional life in the journalism sector for 40 years as a sports editor-writer for the long-established magazine Bohemia; furthermore, ...

Orlando Terré Camacho

Orlando Terré Camacho is currently President of the World Association of Special Education and President of OMEDI- World Organization of Education, Stimulation and Child Development

Jorge Timossi Corbani

El Timo, el Flaco

Cuban writer of Argentine origin Jorge Timossi passed away at the age of 75 from a heart attack

Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez

Tony

He was born on October 16, 1958 in the city of Miami

Enrique Loynaz del Castillo

Enrique Loynaz del Castillo was born in 1871, in Puerto Plata, República Dominicana

Carolina Rodríguez Suárez

La Patriota, El Alma de Cuba

===BODY=== Carolina Rodríguez Suárez, La Patriota, whom our Apostle baptized as The Soul of Cuba

Niceto Pérez García

Niceto Pérez was born on a small farm in San Antonio de los Baños, currently in the province of Artemisa, and his family suffered, like that of other peasants of that time, harsh hardships in the search ...

Antonio Sánchez Díaz

Pinares, Marcos, Tite

He was a Cuban military officer who fought in the Cuban Revolution (1957-1959) reaching the rank of commander, and later joined the Ñancahuazú Guerrilla commanded by Ernesto Che Guevara in 1966-1967 ...

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo

He was born into a humble family, the third child and the youngest of Gerardo Hernández Martí —now deceased— and Carmen Nordelo Tejera

Félix Figueredo Díaz

Cuban doctor who participated in several revolutionary activities, where he practiced his profession

Antonio Bachiller Morales

Padre de la bibliografía cubana

University professor, journalist, historian, legal expert, bibliographer and prominent Americanist

Luis Victoriano Betancourt Salgado

===BODY=== A lawyer, poet, journalist, and writer, he represented the west in the Chamber of Representatives of the Republic in Arms, and his presence was linked to more than one controversial event of ...

Luis Magín Díaz Zayas-Bazán

===BODY=== He was born in Puerto Príncipe, city of Camagüey

Ramón Labañino Salazar

He was born in the municipality of Marianao, Ciudad de La Habana

Francisca Margarita Amalia Simoni Argilagos

Amalia Simoni

Independent fighter for independence

Miguel Coyula Laguno

A journalist with a patriotic heart

Antonio Lorenzo Luaces Iraola

Colonel of the Cuban Liberating Army incorporated on May 11, 1869 under the command of Major General Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz

Bartolomé de Jesús Masó Márquez

Bartolomé Masó was born on a rustic farm called Cerca Pie, in the district of Yara, later he moved with his parents to Manzanillo, the old city that overlooks the sea, born of a Catalan father and a ...

América Labadí Arce

===BODY=== Example of a young revolutionary woman who gave her life for the triumph and consolidation of the Cuban Revolution

Emilio Aranguren Echeverría

===BODY=== Emilio Aranguren Echevarría who was born in Santa Clara on September 2, 1950, was ordained a priest on February 1, 1976 and appointed bishop of Holguín on November 14, 2005

Vilma Lucía Espin Guillois

Alicia, Luz, Mónica, Déborah, Mariela

Chemical Engineer

Carlos Indalecio Díaz Rodríguez

Cuban revolutionary fighter, stands out in the struggle from Las Tunas

José Cipriano de la Luz Caballero

Pepe, Un habanero, El mismo, Fairplay, Un amante de la verdad, El justiciero, Filolezes, El amigo de la juventud, El centinela, El escolástico

Pedagogue and philosopher

Domingo Agripino Goicuría Cabrera

Goicuría

In 1850 he facilitated financial aid to Narciso López for the expedition of the steamship Creole, for which he was detained and deported to Seville, Spain

Pedro Antonio Santacilia Palacios

===BODY=== He lived most of his life abroad

Juan Bautista Sagarra Blez

Cuban pedagogue, creator of the Librería de los niños cubanos collection

Eduardo Robreño Duprés

Among his works are: History of Cuban Popular Theater, Anthology of the Alhambra Theater, and As They Told It to Me I Tell It to You

Mariana Grajales Coello

Mother of Lieutenant General of the Liberation Army, Antonio Maceo

Donato Mármol Tamayo

He was one of the great founders of the Cuban nation, an extraordinary patriot, animated by the purest sentiments, who demonstrated having the makings of a leader and military chief, which is why the troops ...

Fernando Portuondo del Prado

===BODY=== Cuban pedagogue and historian who conducted important scientific work

Carlos Genaro Valdés

Justino

From his youth he was linked to typography, first as a typesetter in a printing shop and later as a writer, director, editor or contributor to magazines and newspapers

Salvador Salazar Roig

===BODY=== He was born in Colón, Matanzas, Cuba

Raúl Ferrer Pérez

Cuban pedagogue and poet, symbol of the Literacy Campaign and adult education

Federico Eduardo Isidro Fernández-Cavada Howard

Capitán Candela

Cuban patriot of the War of '68

Guillermo Cabrera Álvarez

El genio,

A journalist with a long professional career and a great Cuban politician

José Joaquín Palma Lasso de la Vega

===BODY=== Poet, educator, patriot, guardian of justice and youth who strived to create a solid foundation from which the young people of tomorrow could achieve a prosperous future

Serafín Sánchez Valdivia

===BODY=== Cuban patriot born in the former province of Las Villas

José Manuel Carbonell Rivero

Tampa, Cacarajicara, Gerardo de Lavernier, René de Roban

Born in Alquízar, La Habana

Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández

===BODY=== He was born in Camagüey, Cuba

José Marcelino Maceo Grajales

León de Oriente

Son of Mariana Grajales and Marcos Maceo, José was born in February 1849 in Majaguabo, San Luis, Oriente, four years after his brother Antonio

Raúl Roa García

Canciller de la Dignidad

Writer, polemicist, professor, politician and diplomat, since adolescence he was linked to the country's revolutionary movements, first against the Machado tyranny and later against the Batista regime. ...

Francisco Javier Cisneros Correa

A prominent Cuban patriot of the 19th century wars of independence

Manuel Urrutia Lleó

===BODY=== He participated in the struggles against the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado and Fulgencio Batista

Gregorio Fuentes

El gallego, Español

He was a Cuban fisherman, first mate of the Pilar, the boat belonging to American writer Ernest Hemingway

Juan Gualberto Gómez Ferrer

G

===BODY=== Politician (patriot), journalist and leader of Cuban African Americans, who distinguished himself in the Independence of Cuba and during the republican period between 1901 and 1933