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Jorge, Antonio

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• 2011 October 28

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Professor of economics at Florida International University, who has worked extensively on the economic reconstruction of Cuba.

Gustavo de los Reyes

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• 2013 September 13

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Gustavo de los Reyes, a former ranch owner in Cuba. After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, de los Reyes conspired with William Morgan, an American double agent who later reported him to the Castro authorities, leading to de los Reyes’ arrest an...

Fleitas, Andrés

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• 2011 June 29

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Legend of Cuban baseball and distinguished player in the old Cuban professional league and internationally who was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.

Garcia, Jaime

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• 2011 November 21

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Pianist, chief arranger, and founder of Miami's Conjunto Universal.

Germain, Miguel

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• 2011 July 11

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Cuban activist of Haitian descent who served as president of Municipios de Cuba en el Exilio in the early 1970s, which probably made him the first black Cuban to preside over a Cuban exile organization in Miami.

Fiallo, Delia Pascual

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• 2012 September 29

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Author of radio dramas and television novellas, who found success both in pre-Revolutionary Cuba and after her exile in the United States. Among her most famous works are Soraya, El Angel Perverso, and Lidia Sandoval.

Gómez Gómez, José

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• 2011 June 7

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

One of the thousands of Spaniards who emigrated from Galicia to Cuba and established himself in the Cuban middle class of the 1950s. Gómez Gómez followed his Cuban family and friends into exile in Miami, where he was one of the founders and still ...

Garcia Fusté, Tomás

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• 2010 December 8

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Pioneer of Cuban radio in Miami.

Garrido, José A.

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• 2013 January 22

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Cuban-born businessman and chairman of the Garrido Group in Miami, Florida.

Goderich, Mario P.

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• 2012 May 22

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Cuban-born lawyer who became the first Cuban-American appointed and later elected as a judge in the Third and Eleventh Judicial Circuit Courts of Florida.

González, Fidel

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• 2012 March 7

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

A defense attorney for many death penalty candidates before Cuba's revolutionary courts, who soon became a target himself of the dictatorship. Dr. González was one of the early Cuban exiles in the New York-New Jersey region, where he has been...

Diaz, Sonia

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• 2012 June 11

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Interviewed with Martha del Pino, two Miami-area ballet instructors who founded the Coral Gables-based Academia Cubana de Ballet

Dúran, Alfredo

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• 2010 November 5

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Bay of Pigs veteran who chaired the Florida Democratic Party from 1976 to 1980.  By appointment by Florida governor Reubin Askew in 1973, he was the first Hispanic to serve on the Miami-Dade County School Board. A former president of the Veteran’s...

Father Sergio Carrillo

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• 2013 September 10

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Father Sergio Carrillo, a veteran paratrooper at the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1960 and later exiled to the United States. He was ordained in the Archdiocese of Miami in 1982, and has served as a priest in Miami, Guatemala and Colombia.

Fernandez, Camilo

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• 2011 January 15

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

One of the founders of the Asociación Pro Cuba (Pro-Cuba Association) of Elizabeth, New Jersey and president of the Junta Patriótica Cubana (Patriotic Cuban Junta) in that area

Diaz, Guarioné

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• 2010 August 10

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• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Pedro Pan child and founder and president of the Cuban American National Council.

Diaz-Balart, Lincoln

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• 2011 November 7

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Retired Republican U.S. Congressman from Florida who served in the Florida State House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989, the Florida Senate from 1989 to 1992, and the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011.

Fajardo, Josefina

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• 2010 October 20

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

First wife of Cuban flutist and internationally renowned bandleader José Fajardo.

Feldenkreis, George

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• 2012 February 8

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

CEO and Chairman of Perry Ellis International and prominent member of the Cuban Jewish community.

Ferreira M.D., Leonor

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• 2011 September 26

Part of:

• Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project

Civic leader and one of the first Cuban female physicians actively involved in the University of Havana and political struggles of her times. Ferreira is a founding and active member of the Miami-based organization Junta Patriótica Cubana.