Orestes Ferrara
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Orestes Ferrara Marino
Orestes Ferrara Marino
Orestes Ferrara y Marino' (b. 18 July 1876, Naples, Italy - 16 February 1972, Rome),[1] known in Italy as Oreste Ferrara, Italian Cuban, was:
- a "mambi" colonel, hero of the Cuban War of Independence[2]
- Cuban ambassador to the United States[2]
- Cuban delegate to UNESCO[2]
- signer of the 1940 Constitution of Cuba
- founder of the magazine La Reforma Social (1913-1926) and of El Heraldo de Cuba (1914-1926), a national newspaper[3] which, six months after its founding would become the most widely circulated paper in Cuba with a circulation of 65,000.[4]
External links
- Una mirada sobre tres siglos: Memorias, Orestes Ferrara y Marino - autobiography (in Spanish)
- Candidates for the Executive Board, Curriculum Vitae, Dr. Orestes Ferrara Marino", UNESCO
- Orestes Ferrara - memorial site
Ferrara spoke at rallies against spanish oppressors for the Cuban exiles in Florida. He often wore his revolutionary garb that he had used in Garibaldi years in Italy. He went on to lead an expedition to Cuba and fight as a geurrilla with some of his Tampa followers. He eventually rose to numerous positions in the Cuban Republic.
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