Guiteras
Guiteras is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Antonio Guiteras (1906–1935), Cuban politician * Juan Guiteras (1852–1925), Cuban physician and pathologist * Ramon Guiteras Ramon Guiteras (August 17, 1858 – December 13, 1917) was a pioneering surgeon who specialized in urology and founded the American Urological Association. Early life and education He was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, and graduated from Harv ...

Antonio Guiteras
Antonio Guiteras y Holmes (22 November 1906 – 8 May 1935) was a leading politician in Cuba during the 1930s. Biography He was born 22 November 1906 in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a proponent of revolutionary socialism and participated in the radical government installed after the overthrow of the autocratic right wing Cuban President Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933. In 1931, Guiteras established the Unión Revolucionaria. Guiteras' political beliefs were nurtured in the volatile political climate of the 1920s. He first became widely known as a student leader and associate of Julio Antonio Mella, a young Communist revolutionary. He believed that the liberation of the people would be achieved through violent confrontation with the established authorities; he did not hold firm to the ideal of democracy. Antonio Guiteras was named Minister of the Interior under President Dr. Ramón Grau San Martín. Many reforms were introduced, including a minimum wage, minimum labou ...
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Juan Guiteras
Juan Guitéras y Gener (or Juan Guiteras) (January 4, 1852 – October 28, 1925), was a Cuban physician and pathologist specializing in yellow fever. Guiteras studied medicine at the University of Havana, and moved to the United States in 1873 to attend the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated that same year.Juan Guiteras
Biografias y Vidas He worked at Philadelphia Hospital until 1879,American Journal of Public Health, 16 (2)
1926, pp. 159-160. when he went into the U.S. Navy as a physician and began to research yellow fever, working with Stanford Chaillé and George Miller Sternberg in the Yellow Fever Commission, Havana Yellow Fever Commission. On Ma ...
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