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Actress in radio, theater and TV in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s, who married actor Carlos Badías. Her son, Carlos Alberto Badías, was a famous romantic lead in the early 1950s who later became a political prisoner under Castro
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Philosopher, mystic, poet, and former “plantado” political prisoner.
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Photographer who has spent almost 40 years documenting Cuban and Hispanic performing arts in South Florida.
Tabernilla Palmero, Francisco "Silito"
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General in the Cuban Armed Forces during the Batista regime and son of the highest ranking military chief at that time
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Graduate of the Civic-Military Institute at Ceiba del Agua, Cuba, who started an agricultural equipment design and manufacturing firm in Havana. Exiled in 1961, he continued in that line of work and today is the largest manufacturer of field equipment for the sugar industry, with accounts in nearly 35 countries. Also prominent in Cuban exile activities, he was one of the founders of the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 together with the late Jorge Mas Canosa, and he is a leading figure in the Cuban American Liberty Council following a split from CANF after Mas Canosa's death.
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Member of the House of Representatives of Cuba before the Revolution
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Founder and current president of SALAD (Spanish American League Against Discrimination).
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Sonia Calero, a Cuban Rumba dancer, ballerina and choreographer. Calero is recognized worldwide for her work in Cuban dance with her late husband, Alberto Alonso. She was born in Havana to a working class family, and at eleven years old she enrolled at Municipal Conservatory of Havana specializing in ballet, later dancing for the Ballet Nacional de Cuba and the Conjunto Experimental de Danza. She and her husband Alberto Alonso left Cuba in 1993 for the United States where they continued their teaching and choreography.
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Widow of Jorge Mas Canosa, founder of the Cuban American National Foundation.
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Renowned labor leader and representative abroad of Partido Social Demócrata Cubano.
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Cuban activist and dissident who co-founded the anti-Castro organization Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE). Salvat actively worked against the Castro government in Cuba, and continued his dissident activities after his exile in 1960. He currently directs the publishing house Ediciones Universales in Miami.
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Co-founder and director of Sociedad Pro Arte Grateli, Miami’s oldest Hispanic performing arts company.
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Historian, Bay of Pigs veteran and father of U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
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Journalist and political leader of the Cuban exile community in Venezuela for over 35 years, with extensive knowledge of that community's development and political influence. Romaní is now a twice-exiled Cuban in Miami.
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First Cuban-born Catholic bishop in the US since the colonial era. Spearheaded the construction of the Ermita de la Caridad shrine
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Former Central Intelligence Agency operative best known for leading the interrogation and execution of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Bolivia in 1967. Rodríguez also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion, and became president of the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association in 2004.
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Doctor and political prisoner who served 19 years in Cuba. She is the author of Diary of a Survivor (St. Martin’s Press, 1995).
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Former member of the House of Representatives of Cuba pre-Castro. Because of his close relationship with the Batista family and government, he was among the first Cubans exiled in Miami in 1959 and has served as president of Municipios de Cuba en el Exilio and the Junta Patriótica Cubana, prominent organizations of their time.
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Miami-based writer, actor and comedian best known for his imitations of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on television, stage, and film