Cuban Institutions and Groups

JOVEN CUBA (“YOUNG CUBA”)

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 …

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ASOCIACIÓN DE LOS VETERANOS Y PATRIOTAS

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 …

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AGRUPACIÓN INDEPENDIENTE DE COLOR

Organized in the early 1900s by a group of radical Blacks unhappy with their lack of political opportunities, the “Independent Color Association” developed into a political party during the second United States intervention.  Despite its appeal to the racial consciousness of the Blacks, the party did poorly in the 1908 elections, a fiasco that increased …

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PARTIDO LIBERAL AUTONOMISTA

Founded in 1878 as the Partido Liberal, it advocated home rule for Cuba (Autonomismo) and in 1881 became known as the Partido Liberal Autonomista.  Its program also included the abolition of slavery, white immigration, and economic liberalization. By 1892, with no changes forthcoming from Spain, disillusionment and frustration gripped the party, many of whose members …

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