Elicio Argüelles Pozo

Not to be confused with Elicio Argüelles Menocal.
Elicio Argüelles Pozo
Cuban Senator
In office
July 14, 1940 – 1944
ConstituencyPinar del Río
President of the Cuban Senate
Personal details
Born1885
Guane, Cuba
DiedJanuary 16, 1959
Havana
Political partyPartido Demócrata Republicano (PDR)
ChildrenElicio Argüelles Menocal
AwardsGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

Elicio Argüelles y Pozo was a Cuban Senator and President of the Senate.[1] During the Spanish Civil War, he was the president of the Comité Nacionalista Español (CNE), a Cuban organization dedicated to the Carlist and Falangist ideologies of the Nationalist faction.[2] At the conclusion of the war, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Francisco Franco for his services to Spain.[3] The historian Allan Chase writes that Argüelles was a blue-blood landowner who was in charge of the CNE cell "A-1," alongside his friend José Ignacio Rivero Alonso, who headed the cell "R-1."[4] Argüelles and his son, Elicio Argüelles II, were good family friends of Ernest Hemingway, and met him at a Jai alai game.[5] Argüelles owned the Frontón Jai Alai, the largest Jai Alai arena in Hanava.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "ELECCIONES GENERALES DE 1940" (PDF). Libreonline (in Spanish). March 31, 2021. p. 32.
  2. ^ Virga, Andrea (2018). "Fascism and Nationalism in Cuba" (PDF). IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. pp. 66–67. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
  3. ^ Cabrera, Katia Figueredo (December 2016). "Francisco Franco y Fulgencio Batista: complicidad de dos dictadores en el poder (1952-1958)". Tzintzun. Revista de estudios históricos (in Spanish) (64): 296–325. ISSN 1870-719X.
  4. ^ Chase, Allan (1943). "Falange" (PDF). New York: G.G. Putnam's Sons. p. 60.
  5. ^ a b Stock, Wolfgang (2019-04-23). "Elicio Argüelles - der gute Freund aus Havanna". Hemingways Welt (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  6. ^ says, eduardo Quintana (2020-01-07). "Frontón Jai Alai: Inside Havana, Cuba's "Palace Of Screams"". Retrieved 2024-10-23.


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