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Elicio Argüelles Pozo

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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 y García-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

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  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.