| Office: | Cuban Senator |
| Office1: | President of the Cuban Senate |
| Birth Date: | 1885 |
| Death Date: | January 16, 1959 |
| Party: | Partido Demócrata Republicano (PDR) |
| Awards: | Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic |
| Term Start: | July 14, 1940 |
| Term End: | 1944 |
| Constituency: | Pinar del Río |
| Children: | Elicio Argüelles y García-Menocal |
| Birth Place: | Guane, Cuba |
| Death Place: | Havana |
Elicio Argüelles y Pozo was a Cuban Senator and President of the Senate.[1] During the Spanish Civil War, he was the president of the Comité Nacionalista Español (CNE), a Cuban organization dedicated to the Carlist and Falangist ideologies of the Nationalist faction.[2] At the conclusion of the war, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Francisco Franco for his services to Spain.[3] The historian Allan Chase writes that Argüelles was a blue-blood landowner who was in charge of the CNE cell "A-1," alongside his friend José Ignacio Rivero Alonso, who headed the cell "R-1."[4] Argüelles and his son, Elicio Argüelles II, were good family friends of Ernest Hemingway, and met him at a Jai alai game.[5] Argüelles owned the Frontón Jai Alai, the largest Jai Alai arena in Hanava.[6]