Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros

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Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros (also "Gaspar Betancourt y Cisneros" written; * April 28, 1803 in Puerto Principe, today Camagüey ; † December 7, 1866 in Havana ) was a Cuban entrepreneur and author. He fought for Cuba's independence and economic modernization. He is also known by his pseudonym " El Lugareño " (Spanish for "the villager").

biography

After completing his training in Camagüey in 1822, he went to Philadelphia in the USA and worked in a trading house. During this time he made contacts with José Antonio Saco and other Cuban and South American personalities. In 1823 he became a member of a Cuban commission that traveled from New York to Venezuela to see Simon Bolivar in order to develop an uprising movement against the Spanish colonial power in Cuba.

He also worked on the weekly El Mensajero semanal published in Havana , which appeared from August 19, 1828 and was discontinued on August 29, 1831 due to political pressure. In 1834 he returned to Cuba, where he campaigned for the construction of Cuba's first railway line in 1836 from Puerto Principe to Nuevitas and for better education for the population. From 1837 he wrote for the Gaceta de Puerto Príncipe , continued to work for the El Fanal (Camagüey) and the El Siglo in Havana. In 1846 he had to leave the country on the orders of Captain General O'Donell. In New York began political work as President of Cuban Society. In 1856 he went to Europe where he first lived in Florence and then in Paris until he returned to Cuba in 1861. There wrote with JS Thrasher Addresses delivered at the celebration of the third anniversary of the martyrs for Cuban freedom (message to celebrate the third anniversary of the martyrs of Cuban freedom)

The street in Camagüey, named after him, runs parallel to Avenida Republica, bears his pseudonym El Lugareño and runs north-south through the city center.

Publications

  • Cuestión de utilidad del ferrocarril de Nuevitas a Puerto Príncipe . Puerto Príncipe 1845.
  • Ideas sobre la incorporación de Cuba en los Estados Unidos, en contraposición a las que ha publicado D. José Antonio Saco . New York, 1849.

See also

Ferrocarriles de Cuba

Individual evidence

  1. (New Orleans, printed by Sherman, Wharton, 1854)

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