L’emigrazione antifascista sarda nell’America caraibica: il caso dei repubblicani Ugo Mameli e Silvio Mastio

Abstract

After a short excursus on Italian immigration in the Caribbean, this essay analyzes the case of two Sardinian anti-fascists, activists of the Republican Party, who emigrated to Cuba in the twenties: Ugo Mameli from Lanusei and Silvio Mastio from Cagliari. After being fired for political reasons, the former emigrated first to Switzerland and then to Havana, where he became a journalist and a salesman in the Cuban tobacco trading. As a journalist, he was sent abroad and kept relationships with the anti-fascist exiles in the world. The latter, a journalist of "The Republican Voice" joined his brother Francesco in Cuba. Later, he moved to Colombia and Mexico, where he kept contact with several exiles of "Partido Revolucionario Venezolano." In 1931, along with them, he took part into the abortive expedition in Venezuela against the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. There he lost his life, along with the republican Leopoldo Cairoti.