Cuban Studies Institute

A group of University of Havana students formed in1960 by Juan Manuel Salvat’s Trinchera groups as a wing in the university of the Movimiento de Rescate Revolucionario (MRR).  As the activities of […]

A union (central) of trade unions established in January 1939 through the influence of Fulgencio Batista, serving as an umbrella for the then Communist domination of the unions.  It was given

Block-to-block vigilante committees established in September 1960 to ensure internal security and public control, and counter the increased anti-government activity then becoming evident, “fighting against the counterrevolutionary class enemy.”  Originally,

The National Institute for Agrarian Reform was established May 17, 1959, to carry out the provisions of the 1959 agrarian reform law.  It was given sweeping authority to organize the

A body created in 1961 by merging the Partido Socialista Popular, the Movimiento Veintiseis de Julio and the Directorio Revolucionario.  The objective was to unify these major anti-Batista groups into a united party controlled

FREEMASONRY.  Rationalism, in the form of Freemasonry, was a legacy of the British occupation of 1763 and was reinforced by the arrival of French masons fleeing Haiti, until many of these