Word: hevia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that will be spilled will be that of those who oppose us. No one will be persecuted. We ask only cooperation." Batista charged again that deposed President Carlos Prío had planned to stage a coup of his own in April to make sure that his candidate, Carlos Hevia, would win the June presidential election over Batista and the Orthodox Party's Roberto Agramonte. Said Batista of the ex-President: "He was protecting gangsters. Anarchy and chaos were sweeping the nation...
...melancholy figures last week were Candidates Hevia and Agramonte, both of whom had been favored over Batista in the now-canceled June election. At his Havana mansion Hevia numbly muttered: "A hard blow to Cuban democracy." Agramonte, freed after a few hours in jail, pointed out bitterly that some straw votes had shown him winning. "Batista not only took the government away from Prío," he cried, "but he took it away from me-a double usurpation!" Unmoved, the Strong Man grinned his victory grin, talked vaguely of elections "as soon as possible," and waited...
Naval Expert. Though he has been in & out of office for years, Hevia is not a typical professional politician. His father, who served with Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood against Spain in 1898 and later became Cuba's Secretary of War and Interior, sent him to Annapolis. The Academy's first Cuban student, he graduated 126th among 467 in the class of 1920, and was more noted for his "silken line" with debutantes than for marlinespike seamanship...
Made Minister of Agriculture in Ramón Grau San Martin's shaky revolutionary government, he had one experience that he is never likely to forget. When Grau was ousted one afternoon, Hevia was sworn in as provisional President. He lasted one day. When an ambitious young ex-sergeant named Fulgencio Batista, from his stronghold at Fort Columbia, ordered the 21-gun presidential salute cut off at the count of nine, Hevia knew that his term was over. His explanation: "Without authority to enforce my responsibility, I resigned. I firmly believe responsibility and authority must go together...
...Order. After fighting Batista from exile, Hevia agreed to be his wartime price-control chief, only to resign after a year because of "interference." When President Prío took over in 1948, Hevia became Minister of State and Minister of Agriculture, then president of the National Development Commission, charged with carrying out a $50 million public-works program. He is an able administrator and organizer and a hard worker. He is a good friend of the U.S. Criticized as a conservative ("If law & order is conservative, then I am for conservatism"), Hevia's main worry before June...