Federico Laredo Brú
Federico Laredo Brú | |
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8th President of Cuba | |
In office December 24, 1936 – October 10, 1940 | |
Preceded by | Miguel M. Gómez |
Succeeded by | Fulgencio Batista |
Personal details | |
Born | Cuba | April 23, 1875
Spouse | Leonor Gomez-Montes |
Federico Laredo Brú (April 23, 1875,
Rise to power
Laredo Brú's rise to power began in January 1936 as Vice President. When Miguel Mariano Gómez, son of former president José Miguel Gómez, won the presidential election, strongman Fulgencio Batista engineered the impeachment of Gómez in December 1936 for having vetoed a bill to create rural schools under army control. Federico Laredo Brú served the concluding years of Gómez' term leading the way for an ambitious Batista.[2]
Social and economic programs
Under Federico Laredo Brú, amnesties were granted including to the brutal, former
In 1937 Laredo Brú pushed for the passage of the Law of Sugar Coordination which organized small farmers into cooperatives and unionized agricultural workers, guaranteed tenant farmers a share of their crop and that they were not to be deprived of their fields if they worked them.
Laredo Brú also issued a decree that stated all businesses should be headed by Cuban nationals. Workers unionized, particularly into the Confederation of Cuban Workers, a union in which Communists had substantial influence.[3]
Cuban-U.S. relations
Though the United States had been a dominant force in Cuban politics since 1898 causing anti-American sentiment among the educated, the U.S. presence was lessened under Brú.
MS St. Louis
On May 27, 1939, the
Death
Former president Laredo Brú died of a heart malady in Havana at the age of seventy-one.
References
- ^ "Historia de la nación cubana Tomo VIII". 1952.
- ^ "Spring Fever". Time. April 26, 1937. Archived from the original on November 22, 2008. Retrieved August 14, 2008.
- ^ "Historical Text Archive: Cuba 1934-1952". Archived from the original on February 22, 2008. Retrieved February 14, 2008.
- ISBN 1-56025-778-4.
- ^ "The History Place". Retrieved September 18, 2011.
- Otero, Juan Joaquin (1954). Libro De Cuba, Una Enciclopedia Ilustrada Que Abarca Las Artes, Las Letras, Las Ciencias, La Economia, La Politica, La Historia, La Docencia, Y ElProgreso General De La Nacion Cubana — Edicion Conmemorative del Cincuentenario de la Republica de Cuba, 1902–1952. (Spanish)
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