García Lorca in Cuba

Ángela Oramas Camero ACCORDING to the specialized press, writing on the visit to Cuba made by Federico García Lorca in 1930, he fully enjoyed its beauty. Lorca, the poet of greatest influence and popularity in 20th century Spanish literature and a member of the Generation of 1927, confirmed this in his own account of his stay. García Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, on June 5, 1898 and was shot by firing squad on August 19, 1930, during the Spanish Civil War, because of his support of the Popular Front and homosexuality. While in New York in 1929, Lorca received an invitation from Don Fernando Ortiz, the Cuban anthropologist and president of the Hispano-Cuban Institute of Culture,...