Elicio Argüelles y García–Menocal (Elicio Argüelles II or Elicio Argüelles Jr.) was a
Cuban exile
A Cuban exile is a person who has been exiled from Cuba. Many Cuban exiles have various differing experiences as emigrants depending on when they emigrated from Cuba, and why they emigrated.
The exile of Cubans has been a dominating factor in C ...
and
politician
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—one of the last of the Cuban senators elected to office before the
Communist Revolution
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...
at a
Jai alai
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game in
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. Argüelles' father owned the Frontón Jai Alai, the largest Jai Alai arena in Hanava. In Cuba during World War II, Argüelles was instrumental in the FBI effort to hunt
Nazis
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in Latin America, and was involved in some way with Hemingway's anti-submarine missions. In the late 1950s, he had become one of Hemingway's five closest friends, alongside his cousin, Mario Menocal. His daughter is
Rosario Kennedy
Rosario Arguelles y Freyre de Andrade (Rosario Kennedy) is a Cuban Americans, Cuban American politician, lawyer, advocate, and Advocacy group, special interest Lobbying, lobbyist. She was the first Cuban American woman to hold any elected office ...
. Argüelles and his family fled Cuba around 1960 to escape persecution by the new government of
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President of Cuba, president ...
, and wound up settling in exile in
Little Havana
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, in
Miami
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