Elicio Argüelles y Pozo was a Cuban Senator and President of the Senate. During the

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, he was the president of the Comité Nacionalista Español (CNE), a Cuban organization dedicated to the

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and

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ideologies of the Nationalist faction.'''' At the conclusion of the war, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by

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for his services to Spain. 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." Argüelles and his son, Elicio Argüelles II, were good family friends of

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, and met him at a

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game. Argüelles owned the Frontón Jai Alai, the largest Jai Alai arena in Hanava.

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Cuban politicians Cuban anti-communists Cuban senators 1885 births 1959 deaths Falangist politicians {{Cuba-bio-stub