GONZALEZ ALCORTA 



LEANDRO GONZALEZ ALCORTA 



Teacher; patriot; writer. 



Leandro Gonzalez Alcorta was born 

 on the thirteenth of March, 1861, in the 

 Province of Pinar del Rio. In 1883 he 

 accepted the call of the recently created 

 Institute of that Province to join its teach- 

 ing force and became its Secretary. 



The Cuban struggle for independence 

 soon claimed his attention and he allied 

 himself enthusiastically with its propa- 

 gandists. When troubles were at their 

 height in 1895 he was forced to emigrate 

 to Spain where in the very stronghold of 

 the enemy he proclaimed the wrongs of 

 the colony through the columns of La Paz, 

 a paper which he founded for the purpose. 

 He was arrested and imprisoned, but later 

 being provisionally released, escaped to the 

 United States and thence went to Mexico 



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