Miguel Ángel Quevedo Pérez

Miguel Ángel Quevedo y Pérez was a Cuban journalist, newspaper director, and magazine publisher. He created Bohemia, which became the most popular magazine in Cuba, and still in existence is the oldest consumer magazine in all of Latin America. Quevedo created the Cuban Scouting Movement. After suffering from a terminal illness, Quevedo committed suicide in 1929.

Creator of Bohemia

In the early 1900s, before starting Bohemia, Quevedo worked as a journalist for El Figaro.

On May 10, 1908, Quevedo first published the magazine Bohemia, which he named after his favorite opera, La bohème, by Giacomo Puccini. Within the pages of Bohemia, Quevedo created a sense of Cuban nationalism. Quevedo Pérez also had to attend to the birth and raising of his child. An additional note is that in this early era of media consumption in Cuba, magazines were not the preferred method of news, with most consumers desiring particularly the journalism provided in newspapers. In 1927, this movement was renamed the Asociación de Scouts de Cuba (ASC). The ASC was eventually disbanded by the government of Fidel Castro.