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The Grupo Cubano de Investigaciones Económicas, or Cuban Economic Research Project, was a project undertaken by scholars and Cuba experts at the University of Miami. The study looked at the economic history and development of Cuba, from the colonial, republican, and socialist periods. It was chaired by Jose R. Alvarez Diaz.

Maria Eulalia “Lalita” Salazar Laine (de McIntire) was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1921 to José Salazar y Roges, a civil engineer, and Eulalia Laine Garasche, who came from a wealthy sugar plantation family in Matanzas. She had one brother, José Dámaso Salazar. Lalita Salazar spent her youth in Havana before moving to the U.S. for her high school education at Academy of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic school, in Torresdale, Pennsylvania. In Havana, she received musical training at an early age, coached by Paul Csonka, the choral director of the Philharmonic Orchestra, and by the former Italian opera singer Julia Lucignani. Music would become a central part of Salazar’s life, and she reportedly said, "Anything I do has some connection with music."

Salazar moved from Cuba to the U.S. to continue her music education in voice. She studied for one year in New York with George Ferguson and Henry Jacobi but suffered from a vocal cord injury, which affected the quality of her voice. She sought the help of Herbert Wall in Hollywood, California, who had studied under the famous Polish opera star Jean de Revsky. Salazar trained intensively with Wall and she eventually recovered and went on to sing mezzo-soprano with the Los Angeles and San Francisco Light Opera at Wall’s recommendation. While there she sang in the choral performances "New Moon" and also had a small solo part in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Light Opera Company choir’s production of “Song of Norway,” which went to Broadway.

When her student visa expired, Salazar moved back to Cuba where she continued to perform. She made LP recordings of Cuban folk songs; appeared in the feature film "Cuba Canta y Baila;" had guest appearances on NBC radio in New York, BBC in London, Radio Nationale in Paris; and fulfilled long-term contracts in Rio de Janiero and London. She attended the Municipal Conservatory of Havana and studied solfege, theory, harmony, and piano and had numerous recitals sponsored by the Ministry of Culture. Her life would soon change due to the two key events of meeting her husband, Robert L. McIntire, who was an executive for the American company Sears Roebuck, and the Cuban revolution of 1959.

Memories from Lalita Salazar’s relative Ofelia Salazar Butler reveal that Lalita met her husband reportedly when he sought her out backstage after a recital where she sang the popular Cole Porter song "So in Love'' to tell her how much he enjoyed her performance. In 1952, they were married, two years after their original meeting. Salazar took on the roles of wife and mother, limiting her professional career to occasional appearances for a while. She had two sons, Robert Anthony, born 1953, and John Charles, born 1957. The Cuban revolution of 1959 forced her husband back to the U.S. as American and private businesses such as Sears Roebuck were nationalized by the Castro government. During a short time living in Miami, Salazar performed with the Opera Guild of Greater Miami from 1960-61 and sang the role of Countess with Renata Tebaldi in Andrea Chénier, an opera by Umberto Giordano which tells the story of a poet executed during the French revolution. She and her family then moved to South Texas, where Salazar’s parents and other relatives had relocated after fleeing Cuba. There, Salazar studied part-time at Lamar University, and then at Midwestern University in Wichita Falls, Texas. She auditioned for the Dallas Opera Company and was offered a contract but canceled it due to family responsibilities. Regardless, from 1963-70, Salazar participated in musical theater productions of Funny Girl, Man of La Mancha, The King and I, Can-Can, Bye Bye Birdie, and directed a production of “Brigadoon” in Port Arthur in 1964, and she performed the role of Prince Orlofsky, in "Die Fledermaus" with Beaumont Civic Opera in 1963. She also sang in the Methodist Church Chancel Choir in 1964 and the Choir of Midwestern University from 1965-66.

Salazar’s husband was transferred to an executive position at Sears Roebuck in Venezuela. They lived in Caracas, Venezuela, and Lima, Peru, until McIntyre’s overseas assignment ended in 1982. In Caracas, Salazar founded a women's choir, The Caracas Women's Chorale, which was sponsored by the Venezuelan-American Association of University Women. The group performed for charitable institutions, cultural groups, and the American Embassy. In Peru, Salazar directed the Lima Women's Chorale, performing regularly including for a gala commemorating United Nations' Day with the Lima Symphony in 1972. Salazar also continued to perform in musical theater productions with Little Theatre. Salazar performed solo recitals in Peru and Ecuador sponsored by the United States Information Service from 1970-77 and in 1975 did Viennese operetta presentations for the Municipal Theatre in Caracas. Ofelia reports that Lalita Salazar was well-known in the English-speaking community of Caracas and participated in social and civic activities, including teaching music at a school for the children of Barrio Las Minas.

When Salazar’s husband’s overseas assignment in South American concluded, they moved back to the U.S. and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There Salazar earned a BA in Music from Chestnut Hill College, majoring in voice, in May 1986. She performed with the Chestnut Hill college choir from 1982-86 and the competitive group, the Madrigal Singers from 1985-86. She then earned her M.A. in Music at Temple University in 1992, singing in the Temple University Choir from 1987-88.

Salazar was perhaps best known for the 3-volume LP, “Así Cantaba Cuba” performed with Las Hermanas Martí and Ana Margarita Martínez Casado, as well as other albums of popular and folkloric Cuban music, such as “Día y noche de mi Habana,” released in 1972 and accompanied by la Orquesta de Lucho Macedo and the guitarists Manuel Fajardo y Andrés Palacios. She passed away in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2002.

Maricel Mayor Marsán was born in Santiago de Cuba (1952). She is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, literary critic, editor, translator, and professor.

She lived and studied in Spain from 1970 to 1972 after she left Cuba. Towards the end of 1972 she resettled in Miami where she established her official place of residence. She received an Associate in Arts from Miami Dade Community College in 1974, a Bachelor of Arts in History (BA) in 1976, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (BA) in 1976, and a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Florida International University (FIU) in 1977. Later on, she pursued postgraduate courses in Caribbean Studies and Judicial Sciences.

She was one of the founders of the Revista Literaria Baquiana (www.baquiana.com) in 1999. She has also served as editorial director in both versions, digital and printed, since then. The magazine is considered one of the most important literary magazines in Spanish in South Florida.

She is a Numerary Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia Española (RAE), and a Corresponding Member of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua (AVL). She belongs to the Editorial Board of the official literary magazine of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (RANLE) and she serves as President of the Delegation of Florida of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española since 2019.

Mayor Marsán has published more than two dozen books of her own, including the poetry books: Lágrimas de Papel (Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1975); 17 Poemas y un Saludo (Coral Gables: Ed. Ceugma, 1978); Rostro Cercano (Maryland: Ed. Hispamérica, 1986); Un Corazón Dividido / A Split Heart (Maryland: Ed. Hispamérica, 1998); Errores y Horrores (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2000/2001); En el tiempo de los adioses (Murcia: Ed. Áglaya, 2003); Poemas desde Church Street / Poems from Church Street (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2006); Desde una plataforma en Manhattan — Antología poética de MMM / 1986-2006 (México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) de la Ciudad de México, 2008); Rumores de Suburbios (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2009); and Miami / poemas de la ciudad − poems of the city (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2015). She has published the following books of theatrical plays: Gravitaciones Teatrales (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2002); The plan of the waters / El plan de las aguas (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2008); Trilogía de Teatro Breve (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2012); and Las tocayas — pieza teatral (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2013). She has published the book of essays, notes, and literary reviews Crónicas Hispanounidenses (Miami: ANLE & Ed. Baquiana, 2014). She has co-edited the book of testimonies by Cuban authors Haz de incitaciones: poetas y artistas cubanos hablan (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2003), and the book of literary analysis Profiles and Shadows — An introduction to the poetry of José María Álvarez (Miami: Ed. Baquiana & Turabo University in Puerto Rico, 2005). She has edited and written the prologues of the books: José Lezama Lima y la Mitificación Barroca (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2007); Español o Espanglish ¿Cuál es el futuro de nuestra lengua en los EE.UU.? (Miami: Ed. Baquiana & CCEMIAMI, 1st ed. 2005 / 2nd ed. 2006 / 3rd ed. 2008); and Homenaje a Miguel Hernández en su centenario (Miami: Ed. Baquiana, 2010), among others. She translated into English the poetry book Romances de Coral Gables (Romances of Coral Gables) by Juan Ramón Jiménez, published in a joint project by the AECID, CCEMIAMI and the Spanish Embassy in the USA (Madrid: T.F. Artes Gráficas S.A., 2011).

Her poems, short stories, plays, essays, literary reviews, and articles have been published in many anthologies and specialized publications in different countries. Her work has been translated partially into other languages. She has participated in multiple congresses, recitals, symposiums, and book fairs.

In 2006, she was invited to participate, along with other Hispanic authors who reside in the United States, in the “Celebración de los 450 años de Poesía en Español en los Estados Unidos” (Celebration of the 450 years of Hispanic Poetry in the United States) at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

In 2010, she was selected among the 100 Latinos more distinguished of the City of Miami by the Asociación FusiónArte Madrid y Fusión Latina, with the collaboration of Casa América in Madrid y the Spain-Florida Foundation (500 years) in the State of Florida.

In 2016, she was invited to give her Acceptance Speech as Numerary Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) at the King Juan Carlos I Center of New York University (NYU). The title of her speech was: Ana Rosa Núñez: un pilar cultural del exilio cubano de 1959 / Ana Rosa Núñez: a cultural pillar of the Cuban exile of 1959.

Carlos Alberto Montaner is an exiled Cuban author known for his more than 25 books and thousand of articles, including several novels. He is known as an outspoken political commentator and critic of the Castro regime.

Emilio Núñez Portuondo was a Cuban diplomat, politican, and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Cuba in 1958. Following the Cuban Revolution, his family was forced into exile in the United States. G. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo worked as a tax accountant specializing in recent Cuban immigrants, and Emilio Núñez Rodriguez became a notable Cuban-American lawyer.

Celia Cruz (1925-2003) migrated to the U.S. in 1960 after having had an important career in Cuba with the group La Sonora Matancera. She never returned to Cuba and died in New York in July 2003. Celia was considered "the Queen of Latin Music" and dominated the Latin music scene for almost fifty years. Her collaborations with Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco, Willy Colón and the Fania All Stars in New York during the 1970s sparked an interest in salsa among Anglo and European audiences all over the world. She recorded more than 70albums during her career, received over 100 awards, and appeared in 10 movies. She recorded 20 gold and eight platinum albums and received three honorary degrees from Yale University, Florida International University, and the University of Miami, in recognition of her extraordinary musical talent.