Jose Alvarez (1) (1940–)

Jose Alvarez (Antilla, Cuba, 1940) was militant in the 26 of July Movement from its establishment in 1955 until its dissolution in 1960. At the end of 1961, he broke with the Castro regime, but could not leave for the United States until 1969. He obtained a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at the University of Florida in 1977, remaining in its faculty until his retirement in 2003. He is the author of "Principio y fin del mito fidelista" (Trafford Publishing, 2008), winner of the Silver Medal in the Florida Book Awards, Spanish Language Category for 2008.