René de la NuezAfter the disappearance of ‘’El Bobo de Abela’’, ‘’El Loquito de la Nuez’’ began to be published. This new character was connected with his illustrious predecessor, as both caricaturists were born in San Antonio de los Baños.
René de la Nuez, born in 1937, was studying in Havana when his character appeared in ‘’Zig-Zag’’, a Semanario where ''El Bobo de Abela'' was published by its mixture of elements of the picaresque policy and the cubaneo. His strabismic eyes, a newspaper tricorn on his head and his hand in an alleged vest, said the physiognomy and psychology of the character.
For the public reader he was a crazy guy who was made following the same mechanism of the character that pretended to be a fool. This Loquito, given the economic and social situation prevailing in the country, satirized Batista’s dictatorship and reflected the development of the insurrectional struggle in the Sierra Maestra. He walked "gingerly" and was always in the front line against the politics of his time.
Until 1960s, Nuez alternated ''El Loquito'' and ''Don Cizaño'' in the ''Revolution'' newspaper, as a counterpoint between the reaction and the Revolution. Abela and De la Nuez created two characters that marked an era in the history of caricature and Cuban politics in the first half of the 20th century: ''El Bobo'' and ''El Loquito''.