Huber Matos Benítez (26 November 1918 – 27 February 2014) was a Cuban military leader, political dissident, activist, and writer. He opposed the dictatorship...
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The Huber Matos affair was a political scandal in Cuba when on October 20, 1959, army commander Huber Matos resigned and accused Fidel Castro of "burying...
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Camilo Cienfuegos (section Huber Matos affair)
Fidel Castro. When Huber Matos objected to Castro's consolidation of power, he was arrested by Cienfuegos. While flying back from Matos' former headquarters...
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Bay of Pigs Invasion (section Huber Matos affair)
veteran of the Cuban Revolution, Huber Matos, resigned and accused Castro of "burying the revolution". Fifteen of Matos' officers resigned with him. Immediately...
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occurred when army commander Huber Matos resigned and accused Fidel Castro of "burying the revolution". Fifteen of Matos' officers resigned with him....
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Abel Santamaría Alejandra Gollas as Haydée Santamaría Ernesto Godoy as Huber Matos Guillermo Díaz as Universo Sánchez Tony Plana as Gen. Fulgencio Batista...
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Matos or Mattos, sometimes de Matos or de Mattos, is a Sephardic and Portuguese language surname. The origin of the surname Matos or Mattos is toponymic...
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revolutionaries, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raúl Castro and Huber Matos, respectively. However, the roots of the Cuban Revolution grows deep...
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Sierra Maestra mountains, Castro, aided by Frank País, Ramos Latour, Huber Matos, and many others, staged successful attacks on small garrisons of Batista's...
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imprison the new regime's enemies and political dissidents. They included Huber Matos, an officer in the revolutionary army who attempted to resign and who...
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Guevara Camilo Cienfuegos Raúl Castro Juan Almeida Bosque Celia Sánchez Huber Matos Carlos Franqui Raúl Chibás Abel Santamaría Frank País Agustín Navarrete...
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weakened when Castro ordered the arrest and imprisonment in October 1959 of Huber Matos, an anti-Communist revolutionary who had recently resigned from office...
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Havana. He is presumed dead. 11 December Trial of revolutionary Huber Matos begins. Matos is found guilty of "treason and sedition". 1960 4 March The French...
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in Mexico. In October 1959, after the arrest and trial of Commander Huber Matos of the Cuban revolutionary army, the Cuban intelligence unit G-2 began...
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land redistributions and enlisted the newly disaffected rebel leader Huber Matos, who along with the anti-communist wing of the 26 July Movement, joined...
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1940), Cuban politician Harry Villegas (1940–2019), Cuban revolutionary Huber Matos (1918–2014), Cuban revolutionary military leader, political dissident...
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member of the outlawed Independent and Democratic Cuba Party founded by Huber Matos) stood for election to a Havana local council, the first openly declared...
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1956 - El Cubano Libre student newspaper begins publication. 1959 - Huber Matos becomes governor of province. 1961 - Coro de Camagüey (musical group)...
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campaign to reduce communist influences in the government and armed forces. Huber Matos, head of the rebel army in Camaguey Province, resigned in October 1959...
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Gustavo Arcos, Cuban Revolutionary later became an imprisoned dissident Huber Matos, Cuban Revolutionary Ignacio Agramonte, 19th century Cuban revolutionary...
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requested aid would set sail for Santo Domingo. Since the end of September, Huber Matos had written to Alexandre Pétion requesting weapons and ammunition, supplies...
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exclusive secret messenger for Commander Huber Matos, He was the first one to link the various Cuban prisons to Matos’s organization, later to be known as Cuba...
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letters denouncing the Castro regime written by Revolutionary Commander Huber Matos from prison after his October 1959 arrest for “counter-revolutionary...
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Camilo Cienfuegos, Fidel Castro, Huber Matos, entering Havana on 8 January 1959...
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Eric Lockwood, 81, English rugby league player (Wakefield Trinity). Huber Matos, 95, Cuban dissident, activist and writer, heart attack. Arnstein Øverkil...
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Ari Huber. A young boxer saves an elderly person from being attacked and goes viral as a result. Chris Soriano Michael D'Aguilar Peter Laboy Ari Huber Kimberly...
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seats of the National Council and the 46 seats of the Council of States. Huber Matos, who had fought alongside Fidel Castro in 1959 but was imprisoned later...
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included a number of supporters and former staff members of Rebel Major Huber Matos Benitez, including Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel, who escaped from El...
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and Plan Voisin. At the center of the planned city was a transportation hub that housed depots for buses and trains as well as highway intersections...
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Detroit Lions, and Chicago Bears from 1945 to 1949, in Chicago (d. 1995); Huber Matos, Cuban activist, member of the 26th of July Movement, opponent to Fidel...
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