Adis Barrio Tosar was a Cuban writer and essayist. She is most known for her literary interpretation and criticism of the work of Enrique Labrador Ruiz, which she published under the title Labrador Ruiz en su laberinto in 2007 by Editorial Letras Cubanas of Havana, Cuba. She also wrote the book Realidad, fantasía y humor en tres escritores cubanos about the writers Enrique José Varona, Alfonso Hernández Catá, and Enrique Labrador Ruiz, which was published in 2008 by Editorial Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. Barrio additionally wrote the book Escritos periodísticos de Enrique Labrador Ruiz, which was published in 2013 by Ediciones Extramuros of Havana, Cuba.
Julio Angel Mestre is an exiled Cuban economist who was born in Havana, Cuba in 1935. He is the son of Aida Margarita Cordovés Bolaños and Juan José Mestre Miyares and grandson of Julio Cordovés y de la Paz and Isabel Bolaños Fundora. The Cordovés and Bolaños families were involved in Cuba's Wars of Independence against Spain. Rosario (Charo) and Encarnita Lastra, great-aunts of Mestre, were members of the Cuban Liberation Army (Mambises) within the brigade headed by José María Aguirre, Chief of the Division of Havana, and served under Generalísimo Máximo Gómez.
Mestre studied at the Colegio de la Salle in Havana and graduated with a degree in economics from the Universidad Católica de Santo Tomás de Villanueva in 1957. He served as number 3195 in the Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961. Later, he worked for Union Panamericana in Washington, DC (1963-1965), for CBS/Time Life (1965-1968), and for Kodak Corp. in Venezuela (1968-1972). Mestre established private businesses in Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Madrid. He and his wife, Sandra Teresita Caballero, have two sons. After residing for many years in Venezuela, Mestre now makes his home in the United States.
Luisa María Güell is a Cuban-born actress, singer and composer. She started her artistic career in Cuba at the age of five working in TV commercials. Later she worked as an actress for TV and Theatre. She recorded 24 disks many of which went "Gold." She is a celebrated singer with an international career whose work has received awards and recognitions from Europe through the Hispanic world. In Paris, she received "Edith Piaf" golden medal, an award received for the first time by a non-French singer.
Born in Havana, María Luisa Guerrero received a doctoral degree from the University of Havana. Guerrero taught at several schools in the Havana area, including Ceiba del Agua in Rancho Boyeros and Jose Marti in Maríanao. In the 1930s, she served on the Board of Directors of the Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club, a women’s organization dedicated to the promotion of Cuban culture and the role of women in the intellectual development of Cuba. During this time she also met Elena Mederos with whom she undertook many projects focusing on social welfare issues.
Guerrero was active in several political groups. She served on the Executive Committee of the Movimiento de Resistencia Civica (Civic Resistance Movement) and joined the Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo (People’s Revolutionary Movement) upon its foundation in 1959 and was a member of its National Executive Committee through 1961, when she left Cuba as an exile. In the United States, María Luisa worked in UNICEF with Elena Mederos, and in 1967, she returned to teaching as a Spanish professor and head of the Language Department in Paul VI Regional High School, Clifton, New Jersey.
Emilio Núñez Portuondo was a Cuban lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He held a number of important positions in the Cuban government before the 1959 revoultion, including senator, Minister of Labor, Ambassador to the UN, and most notably, Prime Minister of Cuba in 1958. He served as president of the UN Security Council during the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956. In exile, he was a leading anticommunist speaker, and a clsoe supporter of US President Richard Nixon.
