Francisco Diaz-Silveira
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Francisco Díaz-Silveira was a well known Cuban journalist, writer and poet.
When he was thirteen years old he emigrated to Key West
, Florida
with his family for political reasons. For a time he was a cigar worker. He was secretary of the Club San Carlos in Key West. During the Cuban War of 1895, he returned to Cuba in the expedition of Carlos Roloff
and Serafíín Sanchez. He was the Representative of the western Cuba in the Assembly of Jimaguayú and head of office of the Ministry of the Interior. He was eventually promoted to rank of colonel in the cavalry.
He was part of the writing staff of La Nacion (1898–1899) from Mapos, Sancti Spíritus (the Villas). In 1912, he became co-editor with Carvallo Miyeres the weekly paper El Teatro, which in the following year he became the sole editor and renamed it Universal.
During this same period he carried out diverse public positions, to which he soon resigned due to political differences. Later, persuaded by friends and ex-combatants, he returned to the public life and he held administrative positions within the municipality of Havana.
He collaborated in various magazines and newspapers such as El Yara, La Discusion, El Figaro, Cuba y America, Azul y Rojo, and Letras. He translated works such as Carducci
and Lord Byron among other authors.
When he was thirteen years old he emigrated to Key West
Key West
Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys. Key West is home to the southernmost point in the Continental United States; the island is about from Cuba....
, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
with his family for political reasons. For a time he was a cigar worker. He was secretary of the Club San Carlos in Key West. During the Cuban War of 1895, he returned to Cuba in the expedition of Carlos Roloff
Carlos Roloff
Carlos Roloff - was Cuban general and liberation activist, fighting against Spain in Ten Years' War and Spanish–American War....
and Serafíín Sanchez. He was the Representative of the western Cuba in the Assembly of Jimaguayú and head of office of the Ministry of the Interior. He was eventually promoted to rank of colonel in the cavalry.
He was part of the writing staff of La Nacion (1898–1899) from Mapos, Sancti Spíritus (the Villas). In 1912, he became co-editor with Carvallo Miyeres the weekly paper El Teatro, which in the following year he became the sole editor and renamed it Universal.
During this same period he carried out diverse public positions, to which he soon resigned due to political differences. Later, persuaded by friends and ex-combatants, he returned to the public life and he held administrative positions within the municipality of Havana.
He collaborated in various magazines and newspapers such as El Yara, La Discusion, El Figaro, Cuba y America, Azul y Rojo, and Letras. He translated works such as Carducci
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Alessandro Michele Carducci was an Italian poet and teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.-Biography:...
and Lord Byron among other authors.