Cuban Institutions and Groups

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 […]

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. 

Founded by Carlos Baliño in the early 1920s, the Communist Association of Havana was one of the various communist groups that sprang up in Cuba in the wake of the

The “Cuban Assembly” composed of delegates elected by 31 corps of the Army of Liberation and summoned by the Council of Government to meet at Santa Cruz del Sur on

Cuban sentiment in favor of the abolition of slavery first became significant in the 1850s.  Many of the larger planters came to realize the economic disadvantages of slavery at a

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

Weekly four-page newspaper that succeeded the original Gaceta de la Habana from October 24, 1790.  Founded by Governor Luis de las Casas, and edited by Diego de la Barrera, its

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

The Cuban Revolutionary Party was conceived from the set of resolutions or bases that evolved out of an exile meeting led by Jose Martí in Key West on January 5,

The reform commission, created by a Spanish royal decree of November 25, 1865, of 12 Creole and 4 Spanish-born members, elected March 25, 1866, met in Madrid, adopting reforms, which