Elpidio Valdés is a cartoon character and comic, who starred in a number of features, shorts and strips of the same name.
Elpidio Valdés was born in the 1870s, in a field of battle during the Ten Years' War.
His father caught in an ambush at the beginning of the war, in which his mother continued to work in exile.
The theme song from the original series, the "Ballad of Elpidio", is composed and performed by Silvio Rodríguez about the music of Lucas de la Guardia.
Other voices were provided by Tony Gonzalez, Manuel Marin, Eddy Vidal, Maria Eugenia Garcia, Irela Bravo, Juan Julio Alfonso, Teresita Rúa and Erdwin Fernández.