Hugo Cancio
Cuban-born American businessman and political activist
Hugo Cancio (born 1964) is a Cuban-born American businessman and political activist. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Fuego Enterprises, a diversified holding company active in media and entertainment, telecommunications, travel, and real estate both in Cuba and the United States.
Early life
Hugo Cancio was born in 1964 in Cuba. His father, Miguel Cancio, was a member of Los Zafiros, a Cuban musical group. His mother, Monica Morua, was a singer under the stage name of Monica Leticia. His parents divorced and his mother remarried. He has a sister. Cancio was educated at boarding school in Matanzas.Prior to that, in 1977-1978, he received a scholarship at a rural school located in Jaguey Grande called "José Alfredo Sosa Morales" from where he had to be taken out by his mother in less than a year due to the crises of asthma they gave him; At that time he lived in Varadero, he looked like a young man with economic solvency, he was calm and discreet; he does not express any political position. However, he was expelled after he told an anti-Castro joke.
With his mother, Cancio emigrated to the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980.
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