Background
ANTIGA Y ESCOBAR, Juan was born on May 23, 1871 in Mayajigua. Son of Luis Antiga Magester and Mercedes Escobar González.
lawyer physician and business man
ANTIGA Y ESCOBAR, Juan was born on May 23, 1871 in Mayajigua. Son of Luis Antiga Magester and Mercedes Escobar González.
Has at one time held the following posts: president of the First Coal Mining Company of Cuba, Atlantic Railroad Company, Atlantic Dock Company, and of the Compañía Agrícola Industrial Hispano Americana. Director of the Havana Rapid Transit Company, vice-president of "Louisiana Mutua” Insurance Company.
Treasurer and secretary of the Patria Mining Company, Trinidad Mining Company, Trinidad Manganese Company, and of the Compañía
Agrícola “Fortuna”; director of the Mutual Trust Company of Mexico City. Vice-president of the "Dos Estrellas” Mines Development Company of Mexico.
Member of the Board of Directors of the L. B. South. Spyer Banking Company of Mexico. Vice-president and treasurer of the Compañía
Cubana de "Guamacaro.” Public Career: Formerly president of the “San Rafael” Homeopathic Clinic of Mexico City.
Delegate of El Salvador to the Fifth Pan-American Congress on Child Welfare, and to the First Pan-American Conference on Eugenics and Homiculture of Havana. Formerly Secretary of Labor in the National Government (under Carlos Mendieta).
Congreso de Escritores Hispano-americanos en Cuba (member of the executive committee). Sociedad “Amigos de la Escuela de Medicina” of Havana. Sociedad de Estudios Psicológicos “Camino del Ideal” of Havana.