The Militant (logo)  

Vol. 71/No. 45      December 3, 2007

 
Luis Miranda: 50 years of organizing
support for the Cuban Revolution
 
BY MARTÍN KOPPEL  
NEW YORK—Luis Miranda, who spent more than half a century organizing solidarity in the United States with the revolutionary movement in Cuba, died here November 13. Miranda, president of Casa de las Américas since 1987, was 79.

Miranda came to the United States as a young man in 1948. In 1955 he became a founding member of the July 26 Movement, initiated by Fidel Castro to overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista tyranny. Castro visited New York and other U.S. cities that year to organize Cubans living here into the revolutionary struggle. The triumph over the dictatorship in 1959 opened the road to the first socialist revolution in the Americas.

Miranda was a founder of Casa Cuba, an organization of Cuban revolutionaries in New York that in 1962 became Casa de las Américas.

Members of Casa, overwhelmingly workers, campaigned actively in defense of the Cuban Revolution. Casa also became a center of support for battles by working people in the United States and liberation struggles from Vietnam to South Africa to Puerto Rico. Miranda championed Casa’s proud traditions of solidarity and nonexclusion, where all political viewpoints were welcome in the common struggle for justice. In a coming issue the Militant will run a fuller account of Miranda’s life.

A meeting to celebrate Miranda’s life and political contributions will be held in New York in early 2008.
 
 
Related articles:
Cuban 5 win new support at Midwest events
Book on Cuban 5 launched in Caracas  
 
 
Front page (for this issue) | Home | Text-version home