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entered the Consular service and was 

 stationed at Montevideo, Uruguay. 



In 191 1 he resigned his consulship at 

 Montevideo and was appointed Chief 

 Clerk to the Secretary of Gobernacion from 

 which post he resigned in 1913. In 1916 

 he was appointed Chief Clerk of the Senate 

 where he continues. 



Sefior Carricarte's life has been chiefly 

 lived in his literary work which he began 

 at an early age, having founded when he 

 was sixteen the Revista Habanera a stu- 

 dents' magazine. In 1904 he founded the 

 weekly journal Helios at Marianao and in 

 1906 in Vera Cruz, Mexico, the Revista 

 Critica. 



In 1907 he served as city Editor of the 

 Spanish edition of the Havana Post and also 

 edited the art journal El Mundo Artistico. 

 He has been a member of the staff of Azul 

 y Rojo, El Figaro, and El Triunfo of which 

 last he has been editorial writer for eight 

 years. He has also contributed to the 

 principal magazines of Cuba and written 

 reviews for the Diario de la Marina. 



In 1906 he founded the Asociacion 



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