| Birth Date: | April 26, 1910 |
| Office: | Cuban Senator |
| Parents: | Elicio Argüelles Pozo |
| Children: | Rosario Kennedy |
| Term Start: | 1958 |
| Term End: | 1959 |
| Death Date: | January 24, 1988 (Aged 77) |
| Birth Place: | Guane, Cuba |
| Death Place: | Miami |
Elicio Argüelles y García–Menocal (Elicio Argüelles II or Elicio Argüelles Jr.) was a Cuban exile and politician—one of the last of the Cuban senators elected to office before the Communist Revolution.[1] His father was Elicio Argüelles Pozo. He, and his father met Ernest Hemingway at a Jai alai game in Havana, and they became family friends. Argüelles' father owned the Frontón Jai Alai, the largest Jai Alai arena in Hanava.[2] In Cuba during World War II, Argüelles was instrumental in the FBI effort to hunt Nazis in Latin America, and was involved in some way with Hemingway's anti-submarine missions.[3] In the late 1950s, he had become one of Hemingway's five closest friends, alongside his cousin, Mario Menocal.[4] [5] [6] His daughter is Rosario Kennedy.[7] Argüelles and his family fled Cuba around 1960 to escape persecution by the new government of Fidel Castro, and wound up settling in exile in Little Havana, in Miami.