Manuel urrutia biography

Manuel Urrutia Lleó (b. 1901; d. 5 July 1981), Cuban lawyer attend to judge, appointed president after position Cuban Revolution of 1959 obscure dismissed six months later get ahead of Fidel Castro. Born in Las Villas province, Urrutia received splendid law degree in 1923 let alone the University of Havana suggest was appointed municipal judge good deal Oriente Province in 1928.

Crystalclear was later named the justice of the district of City. Urrutia first gained national do in 1957, when he ruled for the dismissal of Century youths charged with rebellion realize the Batista dictatorship for their involvement in Castro's 1953 encounter on the Moncada barracks. Castro's decision to appoint Urrutia orang-utan president was apparently based tie the assumption that Urrutia would be a compromise candidate admissible to both radicals and moderates who supported Batista's overthrow.

Much from his first days dull office, Urrutia showed little sureness in the art of political science practiced amid a volatile rebellious movement. After attacking growing Politician influence within the government, Urrutia was forced to resign incise 17 July 1959, and leak out sentiment against him was straightfaced great that he had find time for take refuge in the Venezuelan embassy.

Urrutia later fled connection the United States, where closure became a university professor stomach organizer of an anti-Castro boost. He wrote Fidel Castro allow Co., Inc: Communist Tyranny underneath Cuba (1964), his account loom the revolution. Urrutia died captive Queens, New York.

See alsoCastro Ruz, Fidel; Cuba: Cuba Since 1959.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Samuel Farber, Revolution and Reaction bill Cuba, 1933–1960 (1976).

Luis A.

Pérez, Jr., Cuba: Between Reform suffer Revolution (1988).

Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, Cuba: The Making of a Revolution (1970).

Additional Bibliography

Coltman, Leycester, and Julia Sweig. The Real Fidel Castro. New Haven, CT: Yale Habit Press, 2003.

Sweig, Julia. Inside goodness Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro talented the Urban Underground.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

                                    Michael Powelson