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1952, March 10. Fulgencio Batista takescontrol of Cuba (again) in a bloodlesscoup de etat. Elections are canceled.
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José Martí | Cuban Flag | Batista on TIME | Raul Castro | Crowds at Castro Speech in Ha-vana | Nicolas Guillén | Castro and Pope John Paul II in Havana | SHADED ROW: Martí re-membered | Generation of 1895 Collage | Fidel Castro, 1952 | Castro & Cuban Rebels, 1958| Camilo Cienfuegos, 1959 | Brezhnev in Havana | Castro, 1962 | The Havana Cubans
1933, September 29. Police use weapons to disperse ademonstration organized by the Communist Partyto honor student leader Julio Antonio Mella. Sixpeople are killed, and many others wounded.
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2004, October 28. For the 13th consecutive year, the UN GeneralAssembly votes overwhelmingly against the U.S. embargo againstCuba. The vote is 179 to 4, with 1 abstention. Voting with the U.S.for the embargo are Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands.
1998. Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
“There is no mystery about whathappened between the United Statesand the Cuban Revolution. The morn-ing Batista fled, two forces came intohead-on conflict: the needs of theCuban people versus the economicpolicies of the United States corpora-tions that owned the factories andfields of Cuba.”- Terrence Cannon inREVOLUTIONARY CUBA
TOP ROW: American soldiers in Havana, 1902 | Tomas Estrada Palma, First Presidentof the Republic, 1902 | Gerardo Machado | Fulgencio Batista | Luis Posada Carrilles| Marielitos | Elián Gonzalez | BOTTOM ROW: Cuban Army Unit, 1901 | University ofHavana | Batista | Havana Skyline, 1950’s | Protest Against Batista, 1957 | Che, Raul,Fidel | Che Guevara | Castro, Mikoyan | Bay of Pigs prisoners, 1961 | Kennedy, 1961| Teofilo Stevenson | TV Martí | Felix Savón | Elian & Father
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"Cuba's history has a significance out ofproportion to its size." - Philip S. Foner
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1902, May 20. Tomás Estrada Palma is swornin as the Cuban Republic’s first president.
Was it necessary to fight against Spain for so long only to find oneselfagain facing a single, all-powerful customer? - Jean-Paul Sartre
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1908 - The Partido Independiente de Color isestablished by Evaristo Estenoz and others.
1909 - The Morúa Law bans political partiesbased on race or class, and denies independ-ents the right to run a candidate for president.
1930, October 1.Machado's governmentsuspends constitutionalguarantees.
1959, January 12. In Santiago de Cuba, 75 menare executed. The group allegedly representsformer police guards known for cruelty andviolence and members of former SenatorRolando Masferrer's private army.
1959, Feb 28.Castro announcesthat generalelections will beheld in 2 years.