At the peak of the dispute, some of the newspaper's vending machines were filled with excrement, and death threats were made to some of its employees, actions that Mr. Mas disavowed.By 1971, Mr. Mas had, with the aid of a $50,000 loan and recommendations from fellow exiles, acquired a small company, Iglesias y Torres, that did work for the telephone company in Puerto Rico. The Oil and Gas segment offers services on oil and natural gas pipelines and processing facilities for the energy, and utilities industries.
According to his associates of that time, he helped raise money, obtain weapons and scout possible sites in the Caribbean and Central America from which Cuba could be attacked or invaded.That feud reached a peak in 1992 when Mr. Mas and his supporters paid for advertisements on city buses that proclaimed, ''I don't believe The Miami Herald'' and organized a boycott of the newspaper that lasted for several months.
In one celebrated instance, he challenged Joe Carollo, who just last week lost his re-election bid as Mayor of Miami, to a duel, saying, ''Your bullying has ended because you have encountered a man with a capital M.''During Mr. Castro's guerrilla struggle against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in the mid-1950's, Mr. Mas was sent by his father to the United States to study at a college in North Carolina. It operates through the following segments: Communications; Oil and Gas; Electrical Transmissions; Power Generation and Industrial; and Other.
Over the airwaves of Spanish-language radio stations in Miami and in letters to the editor and public debates, Mr. Mas repeatedly questioned the patriotism of those who disagreed with him and threatened, in some cases, to ruin their lives or careers.After Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, Mr. Mas became an American citizen and, at the suggestion of the new President's staff, founded the Cuban-American National Foundation. JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ LO MEJOR DE LO MEJOR (30 EXITOS DE COLECCION) JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ LO MEJOR DE LO MEJOR (30 EXITOS DE COLECCION) JOSE … Mr. Mas is Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE:MTZ) and has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since its creation in 1994.
The company is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.Stay informed and up-to-date on your network with RelSci news and business alerting service. Mr. Mas is also the managing partner of a Private Equity Group which manages a diverse portfolio of operating companies and investments. But he continued to criticize Mr. Mas and the Foundation, once calling them ''a little clique of millionaires who have made a very profitable business of combating Communism.''Mr. Mas is survived by his wife, Irma, and three sons, Jorge Jr., who has for several years run the family business, Juan Carlos, a lawyer, and Jose Ramon.Jorge Mas Canosa was born in Santiago, Cuba, on Sept. 21, 1939, the third of six children of a veterinarian in the Cuban Army.