MORALES 



MODESTO MORALES DIAZ 



Journalist. 



Modesto Morales Diaz was born in 

 the city of Sancti Spiritus, Province of 

 Santa Clara, on the twentieth of April, 187 1 , 

 while the Ten Years' War was still raging. 

 He obtained his education in his native 

 place, which at that time possessed excellent 

 primary and secondary schools, and entered 

 at an early age upon the journalistic pro- 

 fession to which he has devoted himself. 

 His first work was done on the staff of El 

 Fenix, the oldest newspaper of the prov- 

 ince, which he served first as reporter and 

 later as editor and to which he has con- 

 tinued to contribute. 



In his youth he took an active part in 

 the Autonomist party and was zealous in 

 organizing the Young Liberals. When the 



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