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The Military and Political Aspects of the 1933 Cuban Revolution: The Fall of Machado

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Louis A. Pérez Jr.*
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University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
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The re-election of Gerardo Machado in 1928 promised to augur the continuity of the political quiescence that had characterized the President's first administration (1925-1928). By 1927, the Cuban chief executive had forged a coalition among the national political sectors, binding the Liberal, Conservative, and Popular parties to his candidacy for re-election. Through the appropriate application of patronage and coercion, the President had imposed a political consensus dissolving partisan autonomy, traditionally the source of anti-re-electionist violence. Cooperativismo, as the arrangement became known, conferred on parties outside the circumference of power the prerogatives, perquisites, and government posts inherent in the past only during national incumbency.

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Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 172 - 184
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1974

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