Cuban Studies Institute

Cuba’s first organized Students’ Federation, created in late 1922 with Julio Mella as secretary and popular figurehead, in angry response to the corruption and incompetence of many professors at the […]

Created in 1946, by a faction of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténtico) that broke with the party, disillusioned with the corruption of the Grau San Martín administration of 1944-1948.  Led by Eduardo

(1) One of Spain’s two traditional 19th century political parties. (2) Original name of the Partido Liberal Autonimista. (3) Party of the Republic, created in 1903 as the primary opposition to the

After Fulgencio Batista had engineered Grau San Martín’s downfall and the thwarting of the revolution of 1933, the students who had supported Grau were frustrated and disillusioned.  Many desired to continue

Title first used by the Cuban Communist movement (hitherto the Union Revolucionaria Comunista) from 1933.  This PCC backed the 1935 general strikes in Havana.  In 1938 Batista negotiated a coalition whereby the party

Name adopted in 1944 by the Partido Unión Revolucionaria, the earlier Unión Revolucionaria Comunista.  Its World War II objective became that of increasing its membership by getting all its supporters

Name given to Fidel Castro’s revolutionary cause, adopted from the date of his ill-fated 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba.  He began the movement in prison,