Society

Ana María Muñoz Bach

An important Cuban publisher, she has to her credit a long list of published works, and as a generous woman, a friend of exceptional feelings, she has known how to blend all those virtues in the mark of ...

Juan Pedro Carbó Serviá

Juan Pedro Carbó Servia marks with his life a space of glory in our clandestine revolutionary struggle

Manuel Pablo Ascunce Domenech

He was born in Sagua la Grande, province of Villa Clara, a young Cuban who was murdered while teaching literacy at the hands of counter-revolutionary bands

Roberto Leonardo Roque Núñez

Revolutionary combatant, he was one of the 82 expeditionaries of the Yacht Granma, served time in the Presidio Modelo de Isla de Pinos, and upon the triumph of the Revolution was released and promoted ...

Olga Negreira González

She was the first professor of Galician language who taught classes to the descendants of emigrants in Cuba and one of the promoters of the refoundation of the Centro Unión Orensano of which she was a ...

Mario García Incháustegui

He served as Ambassador of Cuba in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, in Geneva before the United Nations Organization and International Organizations, and in New York as permanent delegate of Cuba to the United ...

Reinaldo Boris Luis Santa Coloma

Born in the town of San Nicolás, he completed his primary studies in his native town and later his upper secondary education at Instituto Nro

Ciro Redondo García

Cuban revolutionary fighter, member of the 26th of July Movement, assailant of the Moncada Barracks, expeditionary of the Granma and fighter of the Rebel Army

Pablo de la Torriente Brau

The life of Pablo de la Torriente Brau was as brief as it was intense: he was born on December 12, 1901, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and died in combat—also in December—on the 18th of 1936, in Majadahonda, ...

Ana Betancourt de Mora

Ana Betancourt de Mora was born in Camagüey, on December 14, 1832

Aurelia Castillo de González

She was a Cuban writer of short stories and poems

Bernabé Boza Sánchez

Cuban patriot of '68 and '95

Felipe Pichardo Moya

Cuban archaeologist, lawyer, and poet

Martha Frayde Barraqué

Founder and one of the most important figures in the human rights movement in Cuba for nearly four decades, she died in Spain

Claudio Nasco

Communicator, active Twitter user He was born in Cárdenas, Matanzas

Pablo Villegas Prado

Cuban journalist who joined the ranks of the Liberation Army in the 1895 war, ending with the rank of Comandante

Alberto Riera Gómez

Journalist, Doctor of Law, poet, active participant in the struggle against the government of Gerardo Machado

Antero Regalado Falcón

Revolutionary fighter from Ariguanabo, leader of the Union of Peasants of San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa

Manuel Rivero Gándara

Representative political figure of the city of Cienfuegos, Cuba

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes García-Menocal

Coming from both paternal and maternal lines of families established in his country since the beginning of Spanish colonization and involved in the political, economic, and cultural life at various stages ...

Antonio Celestino Bosch Martínez

Mayor who did the most for the municipality of Regla during the neocolonial period

Samuel Carlos Rodriguez Planas

General of Division of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba

Samuel Carlos Rodriguez Planas

Major General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba

Antonio Santiago García

Tony Santiago

He was born in Placetas, Las Villas, into a middle-class family formed by Mardonio Santiago Valdés and Leocadia García Conde

Francisco Higinio Peraza Delgado

A patriot from Quemado who from a very young age joined the struggle of the Liberation Army, initially led in the Mambi forces by Máximo Gómez Báez, he achieved the rank of General

Ramón Roa Travi Era

Garí

Lieutenant Colonel of the Liberating Army

Domingo Figarola Caneda

He directed his life along the path of journalism and letters from 1872, work to which he devoted himself uninterruptedly from 1876, dedicated to the review and criticism of the most important books and ...

José Antonio Fernández de Castro

José Antonio Fernández de Castro was part of the Minorista Group and participated in the famous Protest of the Thirteen, an action that resulted in legal proceedings and imprisonment

Idelfonso Estrada Zenea

Ildefonso Zenea, I.E.Z., I de E y Z., D. I... E... y Z..., Estrada y Estrada, Zenea, Ildefonso, Pablo de la Luz.

Writer, poet and patriot Son of don José Roustán de Estrada and of doña María Zenea, direct descendant of the wealthy Mariel landowners Roustán de Estrada, Marquis of Toro, Luque and Rocamoure who ...

Policarpo Fajardo Díaz

Lieutenant Colonel of the Liberating Army

Ignacio Mora de la Pera

Ignacio Mora, landowner and cultured man, was one of the 76 Camagüeyans who took up arms at the Paso de Las Clavellinas, on the road to Nuevitas, less than 15 kilometers from the capital Puerto Príncipe. Born ...

Fulvio Fuentes Medero

A journalist with a sharp and elegant pen, who worked since 1952 at Bohemia magazine, of which he was editor-in-chief

Víctor Bordón Machado

El Justiciero

Cuban revolutionary fighter born in the town of Quemado de Güines, Villa Clara, Cuba

Antonio Quevedo

Antonio Quevedo, husband of María Muñoz de Quevedo, architect, music critic and efficient cultural collaborator

María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz Montalvo

Condesa de Merlín

Considered one of the first female writers of Cuba

Dermidio Escalona Alonso

Escalona

Cuban revolutionary

Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán

El señor de la vanguardia, El Comandante del pueblo, Héroe de Yaguajay

Founder of the Rebel Army and one of its principal leaders during the National Liberation War; outstanding revolutionary of humble origins and broad popular support due to his cheerful character and natural ...

José de Jesús Pérez de la Guardia

Brigadier General of the Cuban Liberation Army

Fernando Figueredo Socarrás

Outstanding Cuban intellectual and revolutionary fighter of the nineteenth century

José Victoriano Betancourt Gallardo

Cuban journalist and customs writer, born in Guanajay, Pinar del Río and died in Córdova (Mexico)

Desiderio Fajardo Ortiz

El cautivo

Cuban journalist, writer, and pedagogue

Rubén Batista Rubio

Young Cuban revolutionary

Diego José Baptista Rodríguez de Orellano

Padre Baptista, sacerdote cubano, orador, presbítero beneficiado

He was linked to important events in the History of Cuba

Carlos Manuel de Trelles Govín

Distinguished Cuban bibliographer and librarian, who dedicated himself particularly to the systematization of medical literature