By Jesus Arboleya, Rafael Betancourt
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The Protesta de los Trece, the struggle for sovereignty over the Isle of Pines, and the Movimiento de Veteranos y Patriotas intensified the internal political debate. The creation of the Central Nacional Obrera de Cuba and of the first Communist Party radicalized the process and laid the organizational bases for a labor movement that would play a leading role in later events. Machado was able to forge an alliance with the principal groups comprising the oligarchy that assured the continuity of the dictatorship, but also sparked the reaction of other sectors.
Owned electric company. The conflicts continued: in October a group of former army officers revolted, and were massacred by Batista’s troops; the same occurred with an attempted uprising by the ABC. In the end, as a result of North American maneuvers and the inability of the Grau government to form a united front against the reaction, the Government of Days fell and the presidency was left to Carlos Mendieta. S. interests. It marked the beginning of the counterrevolutionary counteroffensive. Raúl Roa described the brief Grau presidency: The apolitical, technocratic, and academic government did not know where to begin, nor what to do, nor where to go.
Had salary levels that surpassed the best in Latin America and compared with those of certain capitalist nations. These workers were also secure in their jobs through the strength of the unions. . This condition meant that the urban workers . . demanded guarantees of security and organization before joining a strike that, if insufficiently organized, would have culminated with an easy defeat for them and irreversible misery. . 46 One explanation for this process of integration and division among the revolutionary ranks lies in the fragile cohesion that always characterized the anti-Batista movement.
