Manuel Urrutia Lleó (December 8, 1901 – 5 July 1981) was a liberal Cuban lawyer and politician. He campaigned against the Gerardo Machado government and...

Gilberto Murillo Urrutia (born 1967), Colombian engineer and politician Manuel Urrutia Lleó, 20th President of Cuba María Isabel Urrutia, Colombian athlete...

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...

politically moderate lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó was proclaimed provisional president but Castro announced (falsely) that Urrutia had been selected by "popular...

and liberal lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó returned from exile in Venezuela to take up residence in the presidential palace. Urrutia Lleó had campaigned against...

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...

(Right to left) rebel leader Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, and Guevara (January 1959)...

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...

ordered Cantillo's arrest, before establishing a new government with Manuel Urrutia Lleó as governor and José Miró Cardona as prime minister, ensuring that...

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...

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...

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...

after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, newly elected Cuban President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, a devout Christian, began a program of closing gambling outlets...

Prime minister (1959) Republic of Cuba Presidents (complete list) – Manuel Urrutia Lleó, President (1959) Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, President (1959–1976)...

lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó should become president, leading a provisional civilian government following Batista's fall. Politically moderate, Urrutia had...

Constitution), the position of prime minister was restored. On 21 December 2019, Manuel Marrero Cruz was appointed as the new prime minister. Captaincy General...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

deputy and Sectetary of Education Manuel Piñeiro, first head of the Cuban General Intelligence Directorate Manuel Urrutia Lleó, provisional Cuban President...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...