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Aurelio Mario Gabriel Francisco García Menocal y Deop was President of Cuba, from 1913 to 1921. García Menocal studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and worked as a sugar planter and engineer in Cuba before entering politics.

He joined the rebel forces of General Máximo Gómez during the Cuban War of Independence of 1895-1898, where he gained fame as a military leader. He was quickly thrust into the politics of the young Republic of Cuba, where he was elected president in 1912. His terms as president saw Cuba's participation in World War I.

García Menocal married Mariana Seva y Rodríguez and the couple had three children: Mario, Raúl and Georgina García Menocal y Seva. He died in Santiago de Cuba in 1936.

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.

José García-Pedrosa is the President and General Counsel of Farm Stores Corporation, a dairy and grocery manufacturer based out of Palmetto Bay, Florida.

Edwina Glenn Garfield was born on the 24th of July, 1895, and died at the age of 91 on the 24th of August, 1986. She was married to a grandson of President James Garfield, James A Garfield III, son of James R. Garfield. She divorced him in 1930. Very little is known about Dora F. Welti save that she is believed to have died in 1962. Her birthdate is unknown.

Pablo Garí is a screenwriter and comedian performing under the stage name of "El Pible." He was a pioneer of Cuba's "Movimiento del Joven Humor" in the 1980s, and founded the comedy groups "La Leña del Humor" in Santa Clara and "La Seña del Humor de Matanzas." He published the book "El Cartero en Llamas Dos Veces" and has written humorous articles for various Cuban publications. Pible won the Premio Nacional de Literatura Humorística in 1995 for his book "El Conde de Manuscritos."

Living in Santiago de Chile for eight years, Pible worked in television and radio and published five humor books. He has lived in Miami since 2002, where he continues to publish books and performs as a comedian in theaters and nightclubs. He has also been a screenwriter on television programs such as "Seguro que Yes," "Esta Noche Tu Night," and El Show de Alexis Valdés." Pible also has a regular humor segment on the television program "TN-3" on América Tevé.