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1902, May 20. Tomás Estrada Palma is sworn 1933, September 29. Police use weapons to disperse a 1952, March 10. Fulgencio Batista takes Cuban Revolution Triumphs in as the Cuban Republic’s first president. demonstration organized by the Communist Party control of Cuba (again) in a bloodless Soviet Union Collapses to honor student leader Julio Antonio Mella. Six coup de etat. Elections are canceled. 1908 - The Partido Independiente de Color is people are killed, and many others wounded. BAY OF PIGS TERRORISM AGAINST CUBA | BALSEROS | CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT established by Evaristo Estenoz and others. 1959, January 12. In Santiago de Cuba, 75 men E MBARGO 1930, October 1. M ONCADA are executed. The group allegedly represents 1909 - The Morúa Law bans political parties Machado's government former police guards known for cruelty and Centenary of Martí’s death based on race or class, and denies independ- suspends constitutional 1956, December 2. The violence and members of former Senator Los Marielitos ents the right to run a candidate for president. Rolando Masferrer's private army. guarantees. yacht “Granma” lands in Elián Gonzalez Las Coloradas, Oriente. 2nd U.S. Occupation Missile Crisis Machado Batista Meyer Lansky in Havana Camilo Cienfuegos Che Guevara S R S

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Was it necessary to fight against Spain for so long only to find oneself again facing a single, all-powerful customer? - Jean-Paul Sartre CUBA AFTER THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE

“There is no mystery about what happened between the United States and the Cuban Revolution. The morn- ing Batista fled, two forces came into head-on conflict: the needs of the Cuban people versus the economic policies of the United States corpora- tions that owned the factories and fields of Cuba.” historyofcuba.com - Terrence Cannon in By Jerry A. Sierra REVOLUTIONARY CUBA