Herminio Portell Vila

1901 (age 91)

Cardenas, Cuba

Herminio Portell Vilá was a prolific writer and scholar. He earned a law degree at the University of Havana in 1927 and a degree in philosophy in He was a Guggenheim fellow from 1931–1933. He was professor of history and military history in Cuba, and during the 1930s he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Los Angeles University of Florida. And at Black Mountain College. He also gave lectures at the University of Chicago, George Washington University, the National War College, the Inter-American Defense College, the United States. Army War College, and the Foreign Service Institute in Washington District of Columbia Portell Vilá also served as the Latin American Radio Editor for the American Security Council (1967–1982) and writer/editor for The Voice of America and Radio Free Americas, which broadcasts information services to Latin America. As a writer, he wrote more than twenty books about Cuban history and published articles for several magazines such as Bohemia Libre. Even into his late eighties, Portell Vilá was participating in two daily radio programs on international affairs, publishing articles, and giving lectures around the country.

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He was born in Cárdenas, Cuba, in 1901 and died in Miami, Florida, in 1992.

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Herminio Portell Vilá was a prolific writer and scholar. He earned a law degree at the University of Havana in 1927 and a degree in philosophy in He was a Guggenheim fellow from 1931–1933. He was professor of history and military history in Cuba, and during the 1930s he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Los Angeles

University of Florida.

And at Black Mountain College. He also gave lectures at the University of Chicago, George Washington University, the National War College, the Inter-American Defense College, the United States. Army War College, and the Foreign Service Institute in Washington District of Columbia Portell Vilá also served as the Latin American Radio Editor for the American Security Council (1967–1982) and writer/editor for The Voice of America and Radio Free Americas, which broadcasts information services to Latin America.

As a writer, he wrote more than twenty books about Cuban history and published articles for several magazines such as Bohemia Libre. Even into his late eighties, Portell Vilá was participating in two daily radio programs on international affairs, publishing articles, and giving lectures around the country.

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