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Antonio Guiteras y Holmes (22 November 1906 – 8 May 1935) was a leading politician in Cuba during the 1930s. ... He was a proponent of revolutionary
socialism and participated in the radical government installed after the overthrow of the
autocratic right wing Cuban President
Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933. In 1931, Guiteras established the
Unión Revolucionaria. Guiteras' political beliefs were nurtured in the volatile political climate of the 1920s. He first became widely known as a student leader and associate of
Julio Antonio Mella, a young
Communist revolutionary. He believed that the liberation of the people would be achieved through violent confrontation with the established authorities; he did not hold firm to the ideal of democracy. Antonio Guiteras was named Minister of the Interior under President Dr.
Ramón Grau San Martín. ... After the ‘
government of 100 days‘, Guiteras became even more radical and founded
Joven Cuba, a
proletarian political organisation inspired by
anti-capitalism and the nationalism of
José Martí. ...”
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