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Autonomist/Liberal Party
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made up of liberal creoles and conservative separatists (they want control over local affairs and representation in the Spanish parliment).
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Unión Constitucional
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party comprised of ‘hardlined’ Spaniards (didn’t want ANY reforms or concessions, really disliked Cubans, and labeled autonomy as a form of betrayal).
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Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC)
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organized in 1892 in Tampa and Key West, FL and founded by José Martí with the support of Cuban cigar makers. The most radical constituency of Cuba. (Opted out of normal political processes, wanted Cuba as a sovereign nation and felt that it could only be achieved through war. It’s two main elements were political and military).
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Los Humildes
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‘the humble people.’ They bring together the possibility of agency and believes that coming together can transform the state of Cuba. Introduces the idea of racial equality and justice in Cuba.
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Junta de Fomento
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defense of local interest, esp sugar; public works, education expansion.
Directed first railroad in 1830 (Havana to Guines) |
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Reformist Party
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wanted: separation of civil/military functions in g’vnr general’s office; right of petition; freedom from arbitrary arrest/confiscation of property; representation in Spanish parliment; increase in white immigration; reform of tax and tariff structures.
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The Junta de Informacion de Ultramar
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formed by Leopoldo O’Donnel to study the changes in colonial administration during authorized Cuban elections.
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Annexationists
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- wished to be annexed by the U.S. instead of being liberated. In the eyes of the U.S., they considered that the wealth and intelligence of cuba all wanted to be annexed, despite this being a clear minority. Furthermore, their hopes were dashed upon the enactment of the Teller Amendment.
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Independents
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wanted “Cuba libre” from both Spain and the United States. Were grossly disappointed that the U.S. couldn’t mind its own bee’s wax. Objected vehemently to the terms of the Teller amendment, saying that it was unfair.
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Mambí (Mambises)
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Cuban insurgents; term describing the revolutionaries concerning their use of machete wielding tactics similar to Eutimio Mambí who fought the Spaniards in the early 1800s. Term also described African troops.
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Autonomist/Liberal Party
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made up of liberal creoles and conservative separatists (they want control over local affairs and representation in the Spanish parliment).
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Unión Constitucional
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party comprised of ‘hardlined’ Spaniards (didn’t want ANY reforms or concessions, really disliked Cubans, and labeled autonomy as a form of betrayal).
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Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC)
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organized in 1892 in Tampa and Key West, FL and founded by José Martí with the support of Cuban cigar makers. The most radical constituency of Cuba. (Opted out of normal political processes, wanted Cuba as a sovereign nation and felt that it could only be achieved through war. It’s two main elements were political and military).
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Los Humildes
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‘the humble people.’ They bring together the possibility of agency and believes that coming together can transform the state of Cuba. Introduces the idea of racial equality and justice in Cuba.
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Junta de Fomento
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defense of local interest, esp sugar; public works, education expansion.
Directed first railroad in 1830 (Havana to Guines) |
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Reformist Party
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wanted: separation of civil/military functions in g’vnr general’s office; right of petition; freedom from arbitrary arrest/confiscation of property; representation in Spanish parliment; increase in white immigration; reform of tax and tariff structures.
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The Junta de Informacion de Ultramar
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formed by Leopoldo O’Donnel to study the changes in colonial administration during authorized Cuban elections.
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Annexationists
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- wished to be annexed by the U.S. instead of being liberated. In the eyes of the U.S., they considered that the wealth and intelligence of cuba all wanted to be annexed, despite this being a clear minority. Furthermore, their hopes were dashed upon the enactment of the Teller Amendment.
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Independents
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wanted “Cuba libre” from both Spain and the United States. Were grossly disappointed that the U.S. couldn’t mind its own bee’s wax. Objected vehemently to the terms of the Teller amendment, saying that it was unfair.
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Mambí (Mambises)
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Cuban insurgents; term describing the revolutionaries concerning their use of machete wielding tactics similar to Eutimio Mambí who fought the Spaniards in the early 1800s. Term also described African troops.
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Separatists
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denounced discriminatory taxation; promised free trade/representative gvn’t/universal male sufferage; defended slavery/slaveholders version of abolition (gradual with indemnification).
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Chinese contract laborers
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1840’s-1870’s: 125K brought in as indentured laborers in Cuba.
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pacifico
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population describing the people who supported the Cuban fighters by being in their homes and providing supports. They were put into re-concentration camps.
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Separatists
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denounced discriminatory taxation; promised free trade/representative gvn’t/universal male sufferage; defended slavery/slaveholders version of abolition (gradual with indemnification).
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Separatists
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denounced discriminatory taxation; promised free trade/representative gvn’t/universal male sufferage; defended slavery/slaveholders version of abolition (gradual with indemnification).
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La Asociación Unión Nacionalista
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political party formed in 1927 when Mendieta split with Machado.
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Chinese contract laborers
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1840’s-1870’s: 125K brought in as indentured laborers in Cuba.
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Chinese contract laborers
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1840’s-1870’s: 125K brought in as indentured laborers in Cuba.
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Federación Nacional de Torcedores
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group that unified the cigar makers. Brought together roughly 30,000 workers from all six states of cuba
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pacifico
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population describing the people who supported the Cuban fighters by being in their homes and providing supports. They were put into re-concentration camps.
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pacifico
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population describing the people who supported the Cuban fighters by being in their homes and providing supports. They were put into re-concentration camps.
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Unión de Obreros y Empleados de Plants Eléctricas
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in 1928, electrical workers organized nationally into this union.
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La Asociación Unión Nacionalista
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political party formed in 1927 when Mendieta split with Machado.
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La Asociación Unión Nacionalista
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political party formed in 1927 when Mendieta split with Machado.
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Sindicato Nacional de Obreros de la Industria Azucarera (SNOIA)
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in 1932, sugar workers formed their own union.
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Federación Nacional de Torcedores
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group that unified the cigar makers. Brought together roughly 30,000 workers from all six states of cuba
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Federación Nacional de Torcedores
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group that unified the cigar makers. Brought together roughly 30,000 workers from all six states of cuba
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Sección de Expertos
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experts in the method of torture, which included the goverment death squad under Machado known as the Porra.
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Unión de Obreros y Empleados de Plants Eléctricas
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in 1928, electrical workers organized nationally into this union.
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Unión de Obreros y Empleados de Plants Eléctricas
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in 1928, electrical workers organized nationally into this union.
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Directorio Estudiantil Universitario (DEU)
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result to arms in 1932. Eventually come to form a new government with the army on September 4th, 1933.
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Sindicato Nacional de Obreros de la Industria Azucarera (SNOIA)
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in 1932, sugar workers formed their own union.
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Sindicato Nacional de Obreros de la Industria Azucarera (SNOIA)
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in 1932, sugar workers formed their own union.
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Association of Merchants
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want better trade conditions, better tariffs, government protection for their baby industries in 1920.
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Sección de Expertos
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experts in the method of torture, which included the goverment death squad under Machado known as the Porra.
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Sección de Expertos
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experts in the method of torture, which included the goverment death squad under Machado known as the Porra.
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Directorio Estudiantil Universitario (DEU)
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result to arms in 1932. Eventually come to form a new government with the army on September 4th, 1933.
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Directorio Estudiantil Universitario (DEU)
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result to arms in 1932. Eventually come to form a new government with the army on September 4th, 1933.
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Association of Merchants
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want better trade conditions, better tariffs, government protection for their baby industries in 1920.
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Association of Merchants
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want better trade conditions, better tariffs, government protection for their baby industries in 1920.
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Committee of 100
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made up of young businessmen led by Porfirio Franca, wanted an end to public corruption, graft and the adoption of a merit system of government in 1922.
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National Association of Cuban Industrialists
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urged the adoption of strong protectionist policies to defend national industry in 1922.
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National Federation of Economic Corporations
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alliance of all producers to come together in a block to pressure the Cuban government for reforms and advocate better industry and trade in 1923.
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Spanish Civil Code
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stated that women couldn’t administer their own property, husband could kill his wife for adultery, no divorce was allowed until 1918, and their conditions were worse than in the colonies.
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National Federation of Feminist Association
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wanted no adultery laws, adjustment of illegitimacy laws, higher education options, and suffrage in 1923.
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National Feminist Association
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organized in 1924 to get suffrage for women
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Association of Good Government (Buen Gobierno)
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created in 1922. It was an alliance of young, professional business leaders and white collared workers who organized against corruption and graft in the Cuban government.
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Cuban Junta of National Renovation
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led by Fernando Ortiz, it want to end political corruption, judicial reorganization, and electoral reform and called for the protection of Cuban industry, commerce, and agriculture as well as the renegogiation of reciprocal trade relations with the U.S. in 1922. Also, it created a social agenda that demanded labor reform, prison reform, and an expansion of health services.
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Veterans and Patriots Movement-
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brings the honorable members of the Liberation Army with the Patriots, first Republican born generation. They challenged conservative and liberal parties with an agenda, were against Zayas, and entered a conspiracy with unaffected members of the Army. The movement is dissolved after leaders are arrested for conspiracy.
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Federation of University Students (FEU)
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established in 1922. Called for reforms such as the establishment of high professional standards for faculty and increased government support of education. Other resolutions called for the end of the Platt Amendment as well as the end of graft and government corruption. Convoked first National Student Congress.
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Protest of the 13
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a group of Habanero writers walked out on the presidential address of Zayas in 1923. They then drafted a notice saying they were honored to begin a movement against the immorality of the government. The notice is what is known as the protest of 13.
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Falange de Acción Cubana
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a political action group organized in 1923 by Rubén Martínez Villena, which intended to organize opposition to the corrupt Cuban government.
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Grupo Minorista
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another group organized in 1923 by Cuban intellectuals. Under the idea of minorismo, the group united the republican generation of intellectuals around the goal of cultural renewal and national redepmtion. Minorismo also denounced U.S. imperialism while asking for agrarian and labor reform
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National Workers Congress
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met in Havana in 1914, demanding preference to the hiring of Cuban workers, an eight-hour workday, a reduction to the cost of living and the establishment of a government ministry to support labor demands.
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ABC Revolutionary Society
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biggest revolutionary party to take form that was a terrorist (by modern american standards) organization in 1931. It was organized around underground cells, in which members of each individual cell could not identify each other, if discovered by the govt. Was made up of the profesisonals, young people, merchants, teachers, white collar workers, blue collar people.
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OCRR (Radical Revolution Cellular Organzation)
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same types of organizational structure and people as the ABC, but these people came out of the providences. They utilized bombs for the communication lines, sabotage, assasinations of political people, etc. Armed struggle and sabotage were the main means used to try and overthrow Machado.
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National Confederation of Workers in Cuba (CNOC)
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conglomeration of more than eighty-two trade organizations which sought large reforms in the workplace and government. Eventually joins with the PCC.
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Radical Socialist Party
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was created in 1920. They called for the socialization of property, the construction of public housing, improvement of work conditions for women and children, amnesty for workers arrested in strikes, equal women’s rights like suffrage, and the abolishment of the Platt Amendment.
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Anti-Imperialist League
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American chapter was formed in 1898 to protest the U.S. involvement in the Cuban war for independence and saw the occupation of Cuba as annexation. Argued to end the occupation.
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vCuban Communist Party (PCC)
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is formed in 1925 out of the CNOC, although the modern creation was organized in 1965. Developed strategies for organizing political support among unions, rejected electoral politics, established educational programs for workers and organized a youth movement.
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People’s Socialist Party (PSP)
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new party that emerged in 1944 from the PUR/PCC as a result of an alliance that Batista had made with formerly suppressed Communists in exchange for their political support in the 1939 Consititutional convention elections and the 1940 presidential elections.
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Bureau of the National Lottery
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est 1909: organized into 2K Collecturias (collectorships) which were sold tickets at low cost, sold them at a higher rate for profit. Collecturias given as favors/payoffs.
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Asociation de Comerciantes de La Habana
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group of Havana merchants; demand improved trade conditions.
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Asociacion Nacional de Industriales de Cuba
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organized by industrialists in 1922; joined key sectors of national industry; organized by Ramon F. Crusellas; urged adoption of strong protectionist policies to defend national industry.
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Federacion Nacional de Detallistas
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group of merchants who wanted establishment of a merchants bank and the abolition of monopoly of sugar estates.
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Porra
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oon squads constructed by Machado a.k.a. para-military troops, formed torture squads. Went to anti-government demonstrations, while posed as civilians and recorded information about people who were against the Machado administration. Also had a Porra Feminina which was made up of women who would beat up other women because men who beat up women is not seemly.
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Independent Party of Color (IPC)
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political movement formed by the Black Petty Burgeoisie, full of black professionals.
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Nativos
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white, native Cubans
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Cuban’s People (Orthodoxo) Party
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was created in 1947 through a split with the Auténticos due to their continued support of Batista. The party’s principal platform was the determination to rid Cuba of corruption.
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Authentic Cuban Revolutionary (Auténtico) Party
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formed by Grau and the DEU students of 1933; had long supported the Batista regime and Batista remained in power
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Moncadistas
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Fidel and 85 people attack a military base in Moncado on July 26, 1953. The attackers are known as Moncadistas.
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Partido Unión Revolucionaria (PUR)
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in 1937, the PCC reorganized itself into this party, made “peace with Batista and turned to the task of developing an electoral apparatus”.
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Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC)
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formed out of the CNOC in 1939, consisted of nearly 350,000 members.
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Federation of Cuban Women (FMC)
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was created in 1960 in direct response to a call from Castro for women to join the revolution. It targeted the need for an equality of wages and labor opportunities and treatment
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Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)
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created in 1960 with the purpose of combating internal subversion and sabotage.
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Association of Young Rebels (AJR)
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designed to mobilize and organize youths between the ages of 14 and 27.
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National Organization of Small Agriculturalists (ANAP)
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created in 1961, it organized farmers and peasants to support the revolution.
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Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI)
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umbrella organization for the three forces of the revolution: the 26 July Movement, the PSP, and the DRE. Formed the nucleus for the formation of the new PCC in 1965.
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Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP)
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created in 1965, with the intent of drafting dissidents and social deviants into the army for rehabilitation; was disbanded in 1967.
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Catholic Church
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was still a mostly Spanish dominated place. When the church discovered and revealed the creeping communism in the government, the Government did a public review of the church’s opinions on all the major issues in Cuban history. They were discredited and the people disregarded the accusations.
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Alliance for Progress
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sought to reform the government and promote economic aid between ‘Merica and Latin America
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Directorio Revolucionario
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Yellow Party
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White Party
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Blue Party
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Federation of Workers of Havana
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