José Quintero

José Benjamín Quintero (15 October 1924 – 26 February 1999) was a Panamanian theatre director, producer and pedagogue best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene O'Neill.

Biography

Early years

Quintero was born in Panama City, Panama, the third of 3 children, to Carlos Rivera Quintero, from Spain, and Consuelo Palmerola. As a boy he was an acolyte though described his childhood in other ways as a disaster—the result of a domineering and overbearing father. He was educated in the United States at Los Angeles City College, and later at the University of Southern California, where he decided on a career in theatre. After notification of his intention, his father, who wanted him to be a physician, declared him dead, leading to a seven year estrangement from his family.

Career

Quintero

Quintero is a Chilean city and commune in Valparaíso Province, in the Valparaíso Region, 30 kilometers north of Valparaíso. The commune spans an area of 147.5 km² (57 sq mi). It was the first port in the country, created during the expedition of Don Diego de Almagro .

History

The name of the city comes from Alonso Quintero, the Spanish navigator who discovered the bay in 1536 when he arrived on the ship Santiaguillo.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Quintero had 21,174 inhabitants (10,390 men and 10,784 women). Of these, 18,719 (88.4%) lived in urban areas and 2,455 (11.6%) in rural areas. The population grew by 19% (3,378 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. The demonym for a man from Quintero is Quinterano and Quinterana for a woman.

Administration

As a commune, Quintero is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a communal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is José Varas Zuñiga.

Quintero (surname)

Quintero is a Spanish surname originating in the Spanish region of Galicia. The name comes from quinto or quinta which means "fifth". It is possible that a "quintero" was a renter of quintas (also known as haciendas, the Spanish equivalent to a ranch). The quintero would rent one-fifth of the land and pay as rent one-fifith of his produce of the land to the landlord.

Others have suggested, not dissimilarly, that the surname is habitational, derived from a placed called Quintero in Ourense province, so named from quinteiro, meaning "farmstead".

People with the surname

Quintero (cigar)

Quintero is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced from Nicaraguan and Honduran tobacco for the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly Altadis SA, now a division of Imperial Tobacco.

History

The Quintero cigar brand was created as Quintero y Hermanos or Quintero and Brothers, when Agustin Quintero and his four brothers opened a small cigar factory in the town of Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1924 and began producing a handmade cigar. Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba, is located near the Vuelta Arriba of the Remedios tobacco growing region, and the brand is one of the few Cuban cigar brands not born in the heartland of the prime tobacco growing region of Vuelta Abajo.

The Quintero brand and its blend of tobacco quickly became commercially successful both in Cuba and abroad, and the Quintero brothers soon developed several sizes of cigars. By the 1940s, Quintero y Hermanos had opened a much larger rolling factory in Havana, and had begun using prime tobaccos from the Vuelta Abajo region. The brand continued to grow in sales, and was particularly popular in Spain.