The speech famously announced the postponement of the elections promised by Fidel Castro, which were scheduled to occur after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
[1][2][3][4][5] On March 10, 1952, three months before the Cuban elections, presidential candidate Fulgencio Batista, with army backing, staged a coup and seized power.
The primary leader of the attack, Fidel Castro, was a young attorney who had run for parliament in the canceled 1952 elections.
[7] In the wake of the Moncada assault, Batista suspended constitutional guarantees and increasingly relied on police tactics in an attempt to "frighten the population through open displays of brutality.
[10] After Castro founded the 26th of July Movement, and it began engaging in combat in 1956, the organization issued the Sierra Maestra Manifesto in 1957.
[11] After the Triumph of the Revolution, Castro held de facto veto power during the process of establishing a provisional government.
[14] While traveling to New York, Fidel Castro announced that elections may enable the return of an oligarchy to control Cuban society.
It seems to me that once the Agrarian Reform is completed, which is the basic point of the Revolution, elections can be held at any time.In July 1959, Castro accused President Urrutia of corruption and resigned.
It is not only with a pencil marking a ballot, but also with blood that a people can take part in a patriotic life.The general ethos of this announcement was that elections were useless, because citizens legitimized his rule by defending his government.
[23] In the immediate aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, José Miró Cardona was appointed as new prime minister, only to resign and later flee to Miami.
While in Miami, Cardona wrote in the magazine Diaro de la Marina that the Cuban Revolution was a much needed progressive force, that should not ignore the poor of Cuba.
[27][page needed] The CRC comprised the former Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, with the addition of the Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo.
[1] In October 1965, the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations was officially renamed the "Cuban Communist Party" and published the membership of its Central Committee.
After this non-constitutional period, the revolutionary government of Cuba sought to institutionalize the revolution by putting a new constitution to a popular vote.