On January 1, 1927,
Miguel Ángel Quevedo y de la Lastra became the publisher and editor of Bohemia. He concurrently finished his studies at the
University of Havana until earning his degree.'' , interviewed and photographed by Bohemia during his trip to Cuba in 1930. In the same 1930 issue, Bohemia caught up with the young European scientist
Albert Einstein when he visited Cuba, with a full-page photo spread and multi-page story dedicated to explaining his life after discovering the
theory of everything, and his enjoyment of walking on the beach. The article on Einstein was called "
El Coloso del Pensamiento Contemporáneo."''' In the late 1920's, the younger Quevedo hired
Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta in her work as a
radical feminist, and to help Bohemia lead Cuban society to a world of
women's suffrage and
women's equality.
Alongside feminism, she promoted free love, homosexuality, class equity, anti-machismo ideals, and more radical ideas. as a gorilla. From the perspective of
Cuba during World War II, Bohemia also published articles in opposition to European dictators such as
Adolf Hitler,
Benito Mussolini,
Francisco Franco, and
António de Oliveira Salazar. On November 10, 1942, Bohemia captured the last-known photograph of
Heinz Lüning, the only German spy executed in all of Latin America during
World War II. In 1943, Bohemia dedicated a specific section called
En Cuba to draft anti-Batista articles. En Cuba was created by
Enrique de la Osa and
Carlos Lechuga. En Cuba critiqued the government administrations of Ramón Grau and
Carlos Prío Socarrás after Batista's first tenure as President.'' On the night that Fulgencio Batista returned to power, Bohemia's circulation included 125,000 copies distributed in Cuba and a further 100,000 distributed abroad.'' The Thursday after Batista came to power, Quevedo's editorial in Bohemia began: "BOHEMIA has a tradition of struggle for democratic institutions, which it will never abandon. At all times we have raised our voice without apostasy or fear, against the regimes of force that constitute a disgrace to the continent. We lived proud of Cuba being one of the few nations in America where democracy was practiced to the fullest. From now on, that pride will be replaced by great despondency, by deep anguish. This country has also just entered the fateful series of American republics where governments remain or succeed one another without the people intervening in the alternatives of Power…"''Batista then assigned
Ernesto de la Fe to be his
Minister of Propaganda, who ensured an era of soft censorships. Ernesto tried to get Bohemia on board with Batista's vision, but Quevedo refused. Bohemia continued to print articles in opposition to Batista's dictatorship. On July 26, 1953,
Fidel Castro led the
attack on the Moncada Barracks.
Marta Rojas and Francisco Cano were in
Santiago that night, and took photographs of the events that unfolded.'' Bohemia published the letter, along with photographs and captions Liekens gave to Bohemia, regarding the savages of the previously overthrown government.In support of the
26th of July Movement, Quevedo printed every 26th page of the magazine in red and black ink. By 1958, Bohemia's regular circulation was around half a million copies, distributed all over the Americas.'' Around this time, Fidel Castro told the magazine that he was not a communist. Even though people generally knew that Fidel had communist sympathies - not many people involved in the Revolution had any idea that Fidel Castro would implement a Communist state in Cuba. Quevedo did not know this, the CIA did not know this, and many of the citizens of Cuba did not know this. It has been argued by many Cuban historians that - much like the overthrow of Machado - Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement would not have been successful without the support of Bohemia.'''' == Liberty Edition, 1959 ==