Elicio Argüelles Pozo
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Guane, Cuba
Havana
Elicio Argüelles Pozo | |
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| Cuban Senator | |
| In office July 14, 1940 – 1944 | |
| Constituency | Pinar del Río |
| President of the Cuban Senate | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1885 Guane, Cuba |
| Died | January 16, 1959 Havana |
| Political party | Partido Demócrata Republicano (PDR) |
| Children | Elicio Argüelles Menocal |
| Awards | Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic |
Elicio Argüelles y Pozo was a Cuban Senator and President of the Senate.[1] During the Spanish Civil War, he was the president of the Comité Nacionalista Español (CNE), a Cuban organization dedicated to the Carlist and Falangist ideologies of the Nationalist faction.[2] At the conclusion of the war, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Francisco Franco for his services to Spain.[3] 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."[4] Argüelles and his son, Elicio Argüelles II, were good family friends of Ernest Hemingway, and met him at a Jai alai game.[5] Argüelles owned the Frontón Jai Alai, the largest Jai Alai arena in Hanava.[5][6]
