Word: portela
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...strong, graceful speaking manner, liked to recall that he had helped lead the unsuccessful Gibara revolt against Machado in 1931. The other three commissioners were a retired banker and ABC member, spectacled Porfirio Franco; Lawyer Jose Miguel Irizarri, and the professor of penal law at Havana University, Guillermo Portela. The five partitioned the posts of government, each to his own talent: the doctor for Secretary of Public Instruction & Sanitation; the law professor for Secretary of State and Justice; the editor for Secretary of the Interior, War and Navy; the banker for Secretary of Finance; the lawyer whose hobby was land...