A political, economic, and commercial newspaper founded in Havana by José Quintín Suzarte and Francisco de Frias Jacott in 1861 to campaign for Cuban home rule. Contributors included José Morales Lemus. In 1863 the paper was taken over by reformist Creoles who sought a reduction in the powers of the captain general. They advocated greater …
Partido Liberal uprising of August 16-September 26, 1906, led initially by Faustino Guerra, protesting the fraudulent election of 1905. By threatening destruction of American-owned properties it brought about the second United States intervention and the desired overthrow of the government of newly reelected President Estrada Palma.
Begun in 1900, the Havana English-language daily morning paper’s first director was C.E. Fisher, who was succeeded in 1919 by John Thomas Wilford. Directed at Americans living on the island, it contained international, U.S., and business news, along with some Cuban news, American sports news, society events, a listing of arriving and departing shipping, and …
Por Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos Madrid, 3 de junio de 2020 Al menos 67 detenciones arbitrarias se produjeron en Cuba en mayo, denunció el Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos. Las provincias más afectadas fueron La Habana, Santiago de Cuba y Villa Clara, de acuerdo con los datos recopilados en la isla por la red de …
A clandestine revolutionary organization founded in 1934 by Antonio Guiteras Holmes, interior minister in the Grau San Martín administration, which had just been overthrown by Fulgencio Batista. The organization adopted urban violence as a tactic to cripple the government of Batista’s nominee, Carlos Mendieta, and was particularly involved in the General Strike of 1935. Jaime …
An opposition movement against President Alfredo Zayas consisting of veterans of the wars of Cuba’s independence struggle. Beginning as a protest for veterans’ pensions, they held an assembly in 1923. Worried about the large size of the assembly, Zayas ordered the pensions to be paid. However, another assembly, held the same year, captured the public’s …
Founded by Carlos Baliño in the early 1920s, the Communist Association of Havana was one of the various communist groups that sprang up in Cuba in the wake of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and played a key role in organizing the unifying Communist Congress of 1925.
The “Cuban Assembly” composed of delegates elected by 31 corps of the Army of Liberation and summoned by the Council of Government to meet at Santa Cruz del Sur on October 14, 1898. After President Masó had charged the assembly with ensuring Cuban independence, the paying off of the army and getting the country back …
Cuban sentiment in favor of the abolition of slavery first became significant in the 1850s. Many of the larger planters came to realize the economic disadvantages of slavery at a time of increasing mechanization. In the late 1840s and 1850s a number of Chinese and Yucatán Indians arrived in Cuba to work in the sugar …
Note: The following article highlights Russian actions in Cuba that may have major implications for U.S.-Russian relations and for Cuba. If Putin is willing now to challenge U.S. security interests in the U.S. own backyard, it may represent a threat perhaps as dangerous as Khrushchev surreptitious introduction of nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962. Russian …
