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The Siege of the Hotel Nacional, Cuba, 1933: A Reassessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2002

ANTONI KAPCIA
ANTONI KAPCIA
Affiliation:
Antoni Kapcia is Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.
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Abstract

The Hotel Nacional battle occurred during the decisive 1933 revolution, when the siege of the deposed military reached its bloody finale. Overall, historians have downplayed the incident or disagreed about the details and its significance. Such neglect and disagreement can be explained by contemporary confusion and the urge of those subsequently seeking to legitimise the revolution to hide the unpalatable and rewrite history. However, the siege may in fact have decisively changed moderate left political opinion, thus shaping the character of post-1934 politics by contributing to Batista's subsequent rise to power.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 2002 , pp. 283 - 309
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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