Carlos Hevia

Carlos Hevia

Carlos Hevia y de los Reyes Gavilán (born March 21, 1900 in Havana , † April 2, 1964 in Florida , USA ) was an engineer, Cuban politician and President of Cuba for just two days, from January 16 to January 18, 1934 .

Life

Carlos Hevia completed his engineering studies at the Naval Academy in Annapolis / USA . He took part in the First World War as an American naval officer . Hevia actively participated in the resistance against the Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado . In 1931 he landed with 40 fighters in Gibara in the north of what was then the Oriente province. Machado's air force then bombed the town.

Under President Ramón Grau San Martín , he was State Secretary for Agriculture. After Grau withdrew, Hevia became President of Cuba for two days. The shortness of his term of office was only undercut by his successor Manuel Márquez Sterling , who had to vacate the presidential chair after a few hours in office. The real power in these years lay in the hands of Army Chief Fulgencio Batista , Colonel Carlos Mendieta Montefur and the US Ambassador Jefferson Caffery .

In 1948 Carlos Hevia became Parliamentary State Secretary, 1940 Foreign Minister and 1951 President of the Commission for National Development. He was the presidential candidate of the Partido Auténtico for the elections planned for 1952, which did not come about due to the Batista coup in March of the same year. He then went into exile in Florida.

After the Cuban Revolution of 1959 under the leadership of Fidel Castro had embarked on a dictatorial and pro-communist course, he committed himself to the overthrow of Castro from his American exile. In 1961 he was a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Council (Consejo Revolucionario Cubano), a body consisting largely of former leaders of the Revolutionary Army and chaired by the first Prime Minister after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, José Miró Cardona .

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Declaration of the Cuban Revolutionary Council of April 8, 1961 in: autentico.org, accessed June 1, 2012 (Spanish)