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Founder and CEO of Leon Medical Centers (LMC), a seven-clinic medical group that focuses on healthcare for Hispanic seniors. With his father, León ran Miami’s first pre-paid medical center, Clinica Asociación Cubana.
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Cuban-American businesswoman who served as CEO and vice-Chairperson of Bromley Communications, a national advertising and public relations firm. She currently heads her own marketing company, The Levitan Group, Inc
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Sister and confidant of Cuba’s great poet José Lezama Lima.
Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project
The Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project collection includes videos, outlines, and selected transcripts of oral history interviews conducted principally with members of the first generations of Cubans exiled since the Cuban Revolution. Interviews...
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Cuban post-modernist visual artist who is part of the "80s Golden Generation." Luna and her family obtained political asylum in the US during the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, after which she established a studio in Miami in 1994.
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Son of the founder of Cuba's Camilo Muebles (Camilo Furniture) who re-launched the family business in exile in Miami.
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Founder of one of largest Hispanic car dealerships in the United States and philanthropist.
Martinez, Eugenio Rolando "Musculito"
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Considered to be the Cuban who infiltrated the island more times that anyone else as a CIA agent and member of the Movimiento de Recuperación Revolucionaria (MRR). He also was one of the four "plumbers" in the Watergate scandal.
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American-born son of exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, CEO of MasTec, and president of the Cuban American National Foundation.
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Famous “comandante” of Castro’s guerrilla, first Commander-in-Chief of Camagüey province. Jailed for 20 years for denouncing Castro’s communist leanings in October 1959. Director of the anti-Castro exile group “Cuba Independiente y Democratica.”
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Journalist and former sub-director of Cuba’s Prensa Libre. Director of Radio and TV Martí in exile
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Set designer, stage manager, entertainment entrepreneur, musician, and all-around behind-the-scenes man of Cuban performing arts who helped found Añorada Cuba and Sociedad Pro-Arte Grateli. Menéndez was a TV set designer at CMQ TV in Cuba. As an e...
Mesa-Marti Betancourt Sharpe, Lidia
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Widow of Juan René Betancourt, president of the Federation of Cuban Societies of Color who wrote a number of books about racial discrimination in Cuba in the 1950s. Mrs. Sharpe is owner of the Little Havana Restaurant on Cornelia Street in Manhat...
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Former political prisoner who served time with Polita Grau.
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Brother of Frank País, who is regarded by many as the one revolutionary leader who could rival Fidel Castro in the struggle against Batista. Frank was killed in the Santiago de Cuba´s uprising that was planned to unfold at the time that Castro was...
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One of the founders of the Varela Project, Cuban human rights advocate and one of 75 opposition leaders jailed in March 2003.
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Cuban-born lawyer and film producer whose work includes the documentary Havana: a Portrait of Yesteryear.
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Former professor at the University of Havana, Miami journalist, and expert on race relations in Cuba.
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Cuban-born writer who came to Miami on the Mariel Boatlift. He has written numerous plays and dramatic works, as well as a column for Diario Las Américas.