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    Manuel Urrutia Lleó (December 8, 1901 – 5 July 1981) was a liberal Cuban lawyer and politician. He campaigned against the Gerardo Machado government and...
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  • Gilberto Murillo Urrutia (born 1967), Colombian engineer and politician Manuel Urrutia Lleó, 20th President of Cuba María Isabel Urrutia, Colombian athlete...
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    into motion the Cuban Revolution and installing a government led by Manuel Urrutia Lleó. The Movement fought the Batista regime on both rural and urban fronts...
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    politically moderate lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó was proclaimed provisional president but Castro announced (falsely) that Urrutia had been selected by "popular...
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    and liberal lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó returned from exile in Venezuela to take up residence in the presidential palace. Urrutia Lleó had campaigned against...
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    replaced by the Chief Justice Carlos Manuel Piedra the following day, who in turn was replaced by Manuel Urrutia Lleó a day later. This was the last competitive...
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    (Right to left) rebel leader Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, and Guevara (January 1959)...
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    setting up a command post in the Hilton. The new Cuban president, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, took steps to close the casinos. In October 1960, Castro nationalized...
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  • ordered Cantillo's arrest, before establishing a new government with Manuel Urrutia Lleó as governor and José Miró Cardona as prime minister, ensuring that...
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    office Left office Time in office Presidents of the Republic 11 Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901–1981) 2 January 1959 18 July 1959 197 days Independent José...
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    some six weeks in early 1959, following his appointment by President Manuel Urrutia on 5 January 1959. On 13 February 1959, Miró unexpectedly resigned and...
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    Castro's forces entered the capital on 8 January 1959. The liberal Manuel Urrutia Lleó became the provisional president. One of the goals of Castro's revolution...
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    after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, newly elected Cuban President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, a devout Christian, began a program of closing gambling outlets...
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  • Prime minister (1959) Republic of Cuba Presidents (complete list) – Manuel Urrutia Lleó, President (1959) Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, President (1959–1976)...
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    lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó should become president, leading a provisional civilian government following Batista's fall. Politically moderate, Urrutia had...
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    Constitution), the position of prime minister was restored. On 21 December 2019, Manuel Marrero Cruz was appointed as the new prime minister. Captaincy General...
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    Minister. The presidency fell to Castro's chosen candidate, the lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó, while members of the MR-26-7 took control of most positions in the...
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  • Anselmo Alliegro y Milá January 2-January 3: Carlos Manuel Piedra January 3-July 18: Manuel Urrutia Lleó starting July 18: Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado Prime...
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    urged to end arms sales to Batista by Cuban president-in-waiting Manuel Urrutia Lleó. Washington made the critical move in March 1958 to end sales of...
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  • deputy and Sectetary of Education Manuel Piñeiro, first head of the Cuban General Intelligence Directorate Manuel Urrutia Lleó, provisional Cuban President...
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    would not assume office until February 16, 1959, as Prime Minister. Manuel Urrutia Lleó was sworn in as President two days after the end of the Cuban Revolution...
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    agriculture, under prime minister José Miró Cardona and president Manuel Urrutia Lleó. Sorí Marín was the chief judge in the 1959 war crimes trials of...
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    rebel army seized power, Castro and other rebels agreed to place Manuel Urrutia Lleó as President of Cuba. In a speech delivered in April 1959, Fidel...
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  • the "July 26 Movement” to join the first cabinet of the president Manuel Urrutia Lleó. Oltuski would later be appointed vice president of the Central Planning...
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  • rebel army seized power, Castro and other rebels agreed to place Manuel Urrutia Lleó as President of Cuba. On January 8, 1959, Fidel Castro announced...
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    chemist Luiz Orléans-Braganza, became the new claimant to the throne. Manuel Urrutia Lleó, 81, former President of Cuba who was installed, and later deposed...
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    suspicious of the new government after the deposition of President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, and attempted to soon resign. On 26 July, Castro and Matos met at...
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    Dead Sea Scrolls, to British parents in Tientsin, China (d. 1979) Manuel Urrutia Lleó, President of Cuba for the first six months after Fidel Castro came...
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    August 13, 1869, during the Ten Years' War, and with ambassador to the U.S. Manuel de Freyre y Santander successfully embargoing 30 gunboats that Spain had...
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    Term Ended President of Cuba Notes ? January 3, 1959 July 18, 1959 Manuel Urrutia Lleó Interim president following the ouster of Batista. No first lady...
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