Word: pedraza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gonzalez. After numerous goodbys, Colonel Batista moved on, first to the island's police headquarters and next to Camp Columbia, where he repeated the leavetaking. The handsome, 38-year-old Army chief distributed his last promotions, reviewed police. Army and Naval detachments, then called up Lieut.-Colonel Jose Pedraza and put his own insignia on Pedraza's epaulets...
That the Colonel will not be entirely without influence in the Army, even though he no longer belongs to it, was suggested by the choice of his successor. Jose Pedraza was also a sergeant when Sergeant Batista headed the non-commissioned officers' revolt which ended the rule of onetime President Gerardo Machado. Chief of Police of Havana and Military Governor of Havana Province as well, Colonel Pedraza was until last week Inspector General of the Cuban Army under Colonel Batista...
...collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator and like most European dictators has the indispensable qualification of being a peasant. Last week Batista showed the peasantry in his blood as never before...