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Army Politics, Diplomacy and the Collapse of the Cuban Officer Corps: the ‘Sergeants’ Revolt' of 1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Louis A. Perez Jr
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In August 1933 a bitter revolutionary struggle reached its climax in Havana. Pressure from the United States during mediations conducted by American Ambassador Sumner Welles, a general strike and a military coup combined to topple the government of Gerardo Machado. National tensions made acute during the machadato and contradictions generated in the anti-Machado struggle converged in the newly constituted administration of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , May 1974 , pp. 59 - 76
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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