Cuban Revolutionary born in Havana on December 14, 1928 in Güines, province of Havana, and assassinated in Santiago de Cuba in 1953, during the assault on the Moncada Barracks. He is considered the poet of the Generation of the Centennial. In his honor it is celebrated every December 14 the Day of the Worker of Culture.

From his adolescence he collaborated with student and regional publications and radio stations, as well as in civic acts, with the intention of divulging the redemptive ideas that from childhood were transmitted to him by his descendant family of mambises.

A loving son, enthusiast of sports, passionate about poetry, philosophy, history, he was born with a vocation of communicator, which studies and early practice, improved.

His parents Alfredo and Virginia were natural of Güines but by that time resided in the capital. When Raul was 8 years old, the family returned to Güines because the father had died of a medical condition, so Raúl passed the primary in schools in Havana and Güines. At 14 years of age he enrolled in the Secondary Education Institute in the town of Mayabeque. Here he stood out as an athlete and also because of his great writing ability, which made him collaborate with the newspaper "El Estudiantil" where he denounced the various problems that were happening , So he accused the then director of the Center for his immoral attitude of sales of notes, abuses with teachers and employees and also with students.

In 1947 his expulsion from the school center was imminent. His brother Cesar managed to process the transfer for the Institute of La Vibora. This one arrives with a remarkable academic record and concludes the Baccalaureate in the course 1947-1948.

He enrolled in Law at the University and remains in the same 2 years, since working as a substitute teacher in the Baldor School discovers that his true vocation was Pedagogy, which was 2 years, being interrupted when participating in the action of the Moncada.

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