Cuban Institutions and Groups

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,

A prominent clandestine organization opposing the dictatorial regime of Gerardo Machado, composed of intellectuals, students, and representatives of the middle sectors of society.  It came into being in 1931, principally

Founded by the Dominican order in 1728 as the Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la ciudad de San Cristóbal de La Habana, it received its current name

Movement initiated by Ramiro de Maetzu, which was very popular in the Spain of the 1940s.  It lamented that Anglo-Saxon values had supplanted Spanish cultural domination of the New World

Begun in 1832 in Havana by Spanish journalist Isidoro Araujo de Lira, with capital provided by Ramón Pintó, as a simple bulletin of shipping movements, this morning daily was only

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

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

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,