Prominent Cubans

7/29/2021   A publication of the Cuban Studies Institute

“Prominent Cubans” is a new series of weekly publications highlighting the principal political, economic, social and cultural leaders during Cuba’s late colonial and national period.   We hope you enjoy this new publication.    Following is the 30th in this new series.     PROMINENT CUBANS    Ramiro Guerra y Sánchez (1880-1970)   Intellectual, historian and political adviser to President Gerardo Machado.  He influenced post-independence Cuba as director of the Escuela Normal de la Habana, as superintendent of schools, and through his writings, generally critical of US policies toward Cuba.  His main books are “Historia de Cuba, La Lección de la escuela primaria, La Patria en la escuela, El Padre Varela, Ecuador, Azúcar y población en las Antillas, El Cardenal Cisneros y el principio de autoridad, Fines de la educación nacional, La Expansión territorial de los Estados Unidos a expensas de España y de los países hispanoamericanos, and Guerra de los diez años, 1868-78.   Read on Web

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