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René Touzet y Monte was a notable Cuban-American musician and bandleader. He led a sixteen-piece orchestra in Cuba before relocating to the United States in 1944, working with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Desi Arnaz, and Xavier Cugat. He had a relationship with Cuban singer Olga Guillot.

Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar was born in Banes, in the province of Oriente, Cuba, January 16, 1901, to Belisario Batista and Carmela Zaldívar, sugar plantation laborers. Of very humble origins, Batista worked from an early age. An avid reader, he attended public school and Colegio Los Amigos, an American Quaker school, but was primarily a self-educated man. He held a few jobs and in 1921 he joined the Cuban Army. By 1932, he was a military court stenographer with the rank of sergeant major.

The effects of the Great Depression, combined with discontent with President Machado's government, led to violent riots which caused Machado to leave the country in 1933. On September 4 of that year Batista led the so called “sergeant’s revolt”, taking control of the Army under a series of short lived governments. As "Jefe del Estado Mayor del Ejército" (Army Chief of Staff) for the next seven years, Batista increased the size and consolidated the power of the army and suppressed a number of uprisings.

In October of 1940, in the first elections after the inception of a new constitution, Batista was elected president. Succeeded by Ramón Grau San Martín, who won the 1944 elections, Batista left the country. In the 1948 elections in which Carlos Prío Socarrás was elected president Batista, still living in the United States, was elected senator for the province of Las Villas.

On March 10, 1952 Batista staged a military coup overthrowing the Prío presidency. His past democratic and pro-labor tendencies won him support from the financial sector and labor leaders. Among the opponents was Fidel Castro, who led an attack against the Moncada army installation in Santiago de Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow Batista’s government on July 26, 1953. Castro was captured, brought to trial and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A year later Batista was again elected president. During the following years, post War economic prosperity grew to unprecedented levels. But growing opposition escalated to social unrest and violence. Castro, who was in exile after being freed in the 1955 amnesty, returned to Cuba and after another failed attack retreated to the mountains to wage a guerrilla war. By 1958 the general situation of the country had become difficult, opposition forces had grown in size and won a number of victories, and some of Batista’s officials had deserted. On January 1, 1959, Batista resigned and flew to the Dominican Republic.

In August of the same year, Batista moved to Portugal where he resided until his death in Marbella, Spain, on August 6, 1973. During those years he wrote extensively and corresponded with prominent literary and political figures including both former allies and adversaries.

Eduardo "Guayo" Hernández was a Cuban reporter, cinematographer, and director of the news programs Noticuba and Cineperiodico. He was one of Cuba's most celebrated television reporters in the pre-revolutionary era.

Eduardo Áviles Ramírez was born in Juigalpa, Nicaragua, and enjoyed a distinguished career as a journalist, poet, and scholar for more than sixty years. Áviles Ramírez arrived in Cuba as a young man and wrote articles for many newspapers and magazines. He acquired a wide following among Cubans, who came to regard him as a native of Havana. Áviles Ramírez ultimately joined the renowned circles of Cuban journalists and intellectuals. Through his endeavors in the field of poetry, Áviles Ramírez is included in the anthology of Cuban poetry.

In 1922, Áviles Ramírez undertook his final trip to Nicaragua, where he met Ruben Darío, a prominent literary figure. In 1925, Áviles Ramírez arrived in Paris for the first time. He remained there until the outbreak of World War II. Much of his literary work pertains to Paris and its residents. In 1940, Áviles Ramírez was detained and situated outside of the city. Hispanic American diplomats formed a literary discourse, and Áviles Ramírez seized this opportunity to pay tribute to Ruben Darío.

Eduardo Áviles Ramírez traveled around the world, and reported personal experiences on journeys to places such as Constantinople. Áviles Ramírez also wrote about prominent individuals and literary writers. He published a few books and also formed a collection of letters and photographs he had received from different parts of the world. He wrote for newspapers such as Diario de Yucatán, El Universal, El País, and Diario de la Marina. He wrote for magazines such as Bohemia, Gráfos, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, and Revista Cubana.

Eduardo Áviles Ramírez became ill, but his conviction to write did not subside. Despite his infirmity and physical disability to correspond, he would dictate articles to his daughter Yolanda, and she would have them published. Mr. Áviles Ramírez’s last article was published in 1989. He died on June 28, 1989 in Paris.

Manuel Pereiras García was born in Cifuentes, Cuba in 1950 and is the author and translator of numerous plays in English and Spanish. His works have been performed at Mercy College, Dumé Spanish Theatre, Stonewall Repertory Theatre, Theatre of New City, and INTAR Theatre. Pereiras García has also written about the history of theater with a focus on Cuban and Spanish drama. In 1998, his complete plays were published by Presbyter’s Peartree. He currently resides in New York City.

Bob Simms was born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1927. Shortly after his birth, Bob Simms' parents Alberta (1888-1970) and Harry Simms (1884-1949) relocated to the community of Tuskegee, Alabama, as members of the music faculty.  Harry Simms was one of Dr. Washington Carver's students in the class of 1907 and often took his youngest son Bob with him on visits to Dr. Carver's home.

Bob Simms moved to Florida in 1953 to join the faculty of the George Washington Carver schools in Coconut Grove and later served as Executive Director of the Metro Dade Community Relations Board from 1968 to 1983. Mr. Simms developed the Miami Inner-City Minority Experience (MICME) for the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1970s and led efforts to create and implement the Inner City Marine Project - now known as Mast Academy. With his wife Aubrey Watkins Simms, he was a founding member of the Church of the Open Door in Liberty City and is the father if the first black woman to serve as judge in Florida, Leah Simms. Mr. Simms is Emeritus Member of the University of Miami, Board of Trustees.

DPZ was founded in 1980 by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk as an architectural practice. Identifying the deficiencies of the suburban context for their early buildings led to a rediscovery of neighborhood structure and influenced the design of Seaside, acclaimed for its traditional town plan, streetscapes and buildings.
Recognizing the need for an alternative to suburban zoning, the firm proposed a re-integration of urban components with the Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) in 1990. The TND became a model regulation for compact mixed-use neighborhood design, informing hundreds of municipal ordinances throughout the country.
With several new communities well underway, Duany and Plater-Zyberk joined contemporaries to found the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) in 1993. CNU’s charter, annual meetings and numerous policy initiatives, are guiding an international movement of sustainable urban growth and community design. The firm’s subsequent initiatives have generated documents that reflect DPZ’s commitment to ‘open source’ – the Lexicon, SmartCode, Transect, Lean Urbanism, Sprawl Repair, Light Imprint, among them.

Carolina García-Aguilera (b. July 13, 1949) is a Cuban American fiction writer who was born in Havana, Cuba. She is the author of a seven-book series – featuring a Cuban-American female private investigator based in Miami – as well as three additional stand-alone novels, numerous short stories, and contributions to anthologies. García-Aguilera holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, a Master's degree in Language and Linguistics from Georgetown University, an MBA in Finance from the University of South Florida, and has continued studies for a PhD in Latin American Affairs from the University of Miami.

Shortly after Fidel Castro took power, when García-Aguilera was ten years old, her family left Cuba and moved to Palm Beach, Florida, and remained there for two years before moving to New York. She spent four years at Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut, before continuing on with further education. García-Aguilera then married and her and her husband traveled around the world, spending the majority of their time in Asia – first Hong Kong, then Tokyo, and finally Beijing from 1973 to 1981, where her first two daughters were born. Her marriage ended after eleven years, and García-Aguilera moved to Miami to be closer to her siblings. Since, she has remarried and had another daughter. In Miami, García-Aguilera worked at Jackson Memorial Hospital for a time, before interning with a private investigator (P.I.) company and subsequently becoming licensed herself in 1986; she ran her own successful P.I. business for a decade following this. Eventually, she fulfilled the original intention behind getting the P.I. job, which was to write a series of novels with a female protagonist who is a P.I. The “Lupe Solano” detective series touches upon many themes cradled within Cuban-American life – particularly in South Florida – such as exile, diaspora, feminism, religion, family, and the legacies of the revolution. The series was published in a fourteen-year period as follows: Bloody Waters (1996); Bloody Shame (1997); Bloody Secrets (1998); A Miracle in Paradise (1999); Havana Heat (2000); Bitter Sugar (2001); and Bloody Twist (2010). The collection deeply engages politics and history and, after the first three books, begins to explore varied perspectives of Cuba’s current government in contrast to Lupe’s perspective, who views Cuba as unfree. The series has been well-received, with most critics commenting on the richness with which García-Aguilera captures the Cuban American community.

García-Aguilera’s latest novel, Magnolia, was published in 2012. She currently resides in Miami Beach with her daughters.