(His slouchy daytime look, he said, was suggested by photographs of Cuban intellectuals in the early 1930's.)

The director of the publication is Jose Rivero Garcia, one of the leading Cuban dissident intellectuals during the 1980s and 1990s.

Raúl Roa García (April 18, 1907 - July 6, 1982) was a Cuban intellectual, politician and diplomat.

That event drew a mixed crowd of American and Canadian expatriate leftists and prominent Cuban intellectuals.

They fully shared in the sense of confidence, renovation, and nationalism that characterized Cuban progressive intellectuals in the second quarter of the twentieth century.

"Cuban intellectuals used to read with great interest the materials that would come from Russia about reform," said Elizardo Sanchez, a leading dissident.

During this time certain positions were unacceptable to the authorities and Cuban intellectuals were forced to define their political position and for these and other political reasons he decided to leave.

This collection of essays often celebrates Cuban intellectuals while cursing the regime that has crushed many of them, particularly homosexuals.

It gave a platform to essayist Jorge Mañach and many other distinguished Cuban intellectuals.

The establishment was frequented by many generations of Cuban and foreign intellectuals and artists.