Julio Antonio Mella
Cuban politician
Died when: 25 years 291 days (309 months)Star Sign: Aries
Julio Antonio Mella McPartland (25 March 1903 – 10 January 1929) was a Cuban political activist and one of the founders of the original Communist Party of Cuba.
Mella studied law at the University of Havana but was expelled in 1925.He was working against the government of Gerardo Machado, which had grown increasingly repressive.
Mella left the country, reaching Central America.He traveled north to Mexico City, where he worked with other exiled dissidents and communist sympathizers against the Machado government.
He was assassinated in 1929, but historians still disagree on which parties were responsible for his death.The 21st century Cuban government regards Mella as a communist hero and martyr.
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