BETAN COURT 



ALCIDES BETANCOURT 



Journalist; man of affairs; 

 senator. 



Alcides Betancourt was born in the 

 city of Camagiiey on the twenty-first of 

 December, 1865, and was educated in Ha- 

 vana, but went at a later date to New York 

 to obtain special instruction in commercial 

 subjects. 



When the War of Independence broke 

 out, in 1 89 5, he was appointed correspondent 

 of the New York Herald in Camagiiey, and 

 later, held a similar post in Havana. In con- 

 sequence of the news he sent to his paper he 

 was expelled from Cuba (1897) by General 

 Weyler, whereupon he went to New York 

 and continued to write for the Herald there 

 until the United States declared war on 

 Spain, when he became war correspondent 

 writing despatches from the front. 



During the American Intervention he 



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