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Name and location of repository
Beschrijvingsniveau
Collectie
Titel
Carlos Márquez-Sterling Papers
Datum(s)
- 1960-1989 (Vervaardig)
- 1960s (Vervaardig)
Omvang
17 Boxes
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
Carlos Márquez-Sterling (1898-1991) was a Cuban lawyer, professor, writer and statesman active in island politics from the 1930s to the 1950s, and whose stature and political clout made him a leader of the exile patriotic movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. Márquez-Sterling was a congressman in Cuba’s House of Representatives from 1936 to 1946, acting as president of that body in 1936 and 1941. In 1940, he presided over the constitutional convention that created a more progressive constitution for the country; the document was in effect until Fulgencio Batista’s 1952 coup d’état. Márquez-Sterling also worked as a professor of political economy at the University of Havana. Expanding on his political calling, he was appointed Minister of Labor and Minister of Education from 1941 to 1942, and would eventually become a presidential candidate in 1958 before the rise of Fidel Castro.
Early on Márquez-Sterling had qualms about Castro’s revolutionary movement, predicting it would lead to totalitarian rule: “Una revolución sólo podrá traer la anarquía y desembocar en una dictadura de tipo totalitario que Cuba nunca ha experimentado.”
Márquez-Sterling was an exile leader, founding the Movimiento Patriótico Cuba Libre in New York in the early 1960s, lobbying the United States for the establishment of a Cuban government in exile and organizing exile groups across the country. He moved to Miami in 1979, teaching and writing in his retirement.
Content and structure elements
Bereik en inhoud
The collection consists largely of handwritten and typed correspondence dating from the 1960s to the 1980s between Carlos Márquez-Sterling and family, friends, and exiled Cuban political figures. The collection also contains postcards; unedited book manuscripts; event invitations, announcements and programs; audiovisual materials; photographs and clippings.
Notable correspondents include past Latin American presidents José López Portillo (Mexico), Joaquín Balaguer (Dominican Republic) and Otilio Ulate (Costa Rica), as well as Cuban political personalities like Carlos Prío Socarrás, Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar, Rafael Guas Inclán and José Miró Cardona. Márquez-Sterling also corresponded with such distinguished journalists and literary figures as José Ignacio Rivero, Arturo Alfonso Roselló, Horacio Aguirre, Gastón Baquero and Octavio R. Costa.
The collection also highlights important correspondence and documents from Márquez-Sterling’s involvement in Cuban exile organizations such as the Movimiento Patriótico Cuba Libre, of which he was delegate general, and these groups’ interaction with international and American political figures, to wit, Ronald Reagan, former US ambassadors to Cuba Spruille Braden and Earl E.T. Smith, and Nicaraguan ambassador to the United States Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa.
Ordeningstelsel
The collection is organized in two series, Correspondence and Personal Papers. Márquez-Sterling's original order was maintained when appropriate.
Conditions of access and use elements
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
Technical access
Voorwaarden voor reproductie
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Carlos Márquez-Sterling Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Languages of the material
- Engels
- Spaans
Scripts of the material
Taal en schrift aantekeningen
Toegangen
Generated finding aid
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Geschiedenis beheer
Directe bron van verwerving
Gift of Manuel Márquez-Sterling, 2004 and 2011.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Aanvullingen
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Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen
Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën
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Orestes Ferrara Papers
Eugenio Florit Papers
Gustavo Godoy y Agostini Collection
Luis V. Manrara Papers
Humberto Medrano Collection
José Miró Cardona Papers
Carlos Alberto Montaner Collection
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Sources used
Aantekeningen van de archivaris
Collection level record added by Amanda Moreno, December 2012. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.
Trefwoorden
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Geografische trefwoorden
Naam ontsluitingsterm
- Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio, 1901-1973 (Onderwerp)
- Benes, Bernardo (Onderwerp)
- Castillo, Eugenio (Onderwerp)
- Manrara, Luis V. (Onderwerp)
- Miró Cardona, José, 1902-1974 (Onderwerp)
- Márquez Sterling, Carlos, 1898-1991 (Onderwerp)
- Márquez Sterling, Carlos, 1898-1991 -- Correspondence (Onderwerp)