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the Ports Company of Cuba. He has also 

 been managing Director of development 

 companies in the suburbs of Havana and 

 counsel of the bank for rural development 

 (Banco de Fomento Agrario). 



Dr. Cespedes belongs to the Liberal 

 party and took part in the uprising directed 

 by General Jose Miguel Gomez in 1916. 

 He was made prisoner in the incident of 

 Caicaje and kept in jail along with General 

 Gomez and other partisans until the Act of 

 Amnesty was passed by Congress. 



Since these events Dr. Cespedes has 

 devoted himself to his profession. 



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