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    Gerardo Machado y Morales (28 September 1869 – 29 March 1939) was a general of the Cuban War of Independence and President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933....
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    Spanish writer Milo Machado-Graner (born 2008), French actor Bernardino Machado (1851–1944), Portuguese statesman Gerardo Machado (1869–1939), Cuban independence...
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    Herrera was also the Secretary of War & Navy during the presidency of Gerardo Machado. On August 11, 1933, when Cuban National Army rebels took hold of the...
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    economic turbulence was called "the Dance of the Millions". In 1924, Gerardo Machado was elected president. During his administration, tourism increased...
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    In the next election Gerardo Machado was elected, but turned dictatorial, and after a series of coups that followed when Machado was forced to step down...
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    according to Machado, echoed the most ancient popular wisdom. In Gerardo Diego's words, Machado "spoke in verse and lived in poetry." Machado was born in...
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    was a liberal Cuban lawyer and politician. He campaigned against the Gerardo Machado government and the dictatorial second presidency of Fulgencio Batista...
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    but was expelled in 1925. He had worked against the government of Gerardo Machado, which had grown increasingly repressive. Mella left the country, reaching...
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    capital of Cuba. The building was commissioned by Cuban president Gerardo Machado and built from 1926 to 1929 under the direction of Eugenio Rayneri...
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    Pérez as its leader. Due to repressive actions by the Cuban state of Gerardo Machado, Pérez was kicked out of the country thirteen days later, on 31 August...
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    1928. The non-democratic elections were won by incumbent President Gerardo Machado who was the only candidate. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas:...
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  • party formed an alliance with the Cuban Popular Party. The alliance's Gerardo Machado won the presidential election, whilst it also won both the Senate and...
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    Guillén's first collection with political implications. Cuba's dictatorial Gerardo Machado regime was overthrown in 1933, but political repression intensified...
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  • Havana students against the backdrop of a power grab by President Gerardo Machado consisting of constitutional reforms designed to prolong his presidential...
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  • Representatives in November 1932 for the Oriente Province. When president Gerardo Machado was overthrown in August 1933, Rep. Arnaz was arrested and jailed....
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  • director Gerardo Machado (1871–1939), President of Cuba Gerardo Martino (born 1962), retired Argentine footballer and current manager Gerardo Matos Rodríguez...
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    Cuban politician and interim President of Cuba. A chief opponent of Gerardo Machado, Mendieta was installed as interim President of Cuba in 1934 by a coup...
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    became heavily involved in negotiations that removed Cuban president Gerardo Machado from power and replaced him with rival Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y...
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    looking through the cell door's peephole. In 1925, Cuba's president Gerardo Machado set out to build a modern prison, based on Bentham's concepts and employing...
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    friends and relatives to illegally gain greater access to wealth. Gerardo Machado succeeded Zayas from 1925 to 1933, and entered the presidency with...
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  • history (the Cuban war of independence, the 1930s during the regime of Gerardo Machado and the 1960s), all as seen through the eyes of a different woman,...
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    Brú, amnesties were granted including to the brutal, former dictator Gerardo Machado and the Cuban Congress passed many social welfare measures as well...
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    May 20, 1936. He was the seventh provisional chief since the fall of Gerardo Machado. Barnet y Vinageras was born in Spain but his parents were born in...
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    permitted President Gerardo Machado to serve a second term in office without elections. Although the political opposition to Machado and to the constitutional...
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  • December 1925, as a student leader protesting against the government of Gerardo Machado. Mella was exiled from Cuba in 1925 and came to Mexico in 1926. In...
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    political organization founded in 1931 in opposition to the government of Gerardo Machado. It used a hierarchy of clandestine cells, in which each member would...
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  • 1925: The Liberal Party wins the elections with Gerardo Machado as their candidate. 1929: Machado runs for a second term by altering the Constitution...
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    coalition that ruled Cuba from September 5 to September 10, 1933 after Gerardo Machado was deposed on August 12, 1933. Prior to the Pentarchy, General Alberto...
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    he was involved with the student protests against then-President Gerardo Machado, and was jailed in 1931. Upon his release he was exiled from Cuba,...
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    Cuba in 1922, to become Foreign Minister under Gerardo Machado but resigned after a year. President Machado then named him Ambassador to Mexico, but Céspedes...
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