Does Cuba have a military government?

by Armando F. Mastrapa 3d

Alejandro Pino Uribe, correspondent and professor of journalism, has posited the title’s question in his recent article (first of two) published in the Chilean newspaper, El Rancahuaso.

Cuba has lived, almost permanently — in arms, Pino states citing Jose Marti, Cuban poet and patriot.

The title of the the article is easily answered, Cuba does have a military government, for almost 48 years, and its most well known figure has been the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR-Fuerzas Armadas Revoulcionarias).

Cuba’s history is constant, full of barracks and armed coups of successive governments.

The article is written in Spanish, click here to read it.

(H/T: La Nueva Cuba)

[Time Magazine's 1931 cover of Cuba's Mussolini - President Gerardo Machado, who was overthrown by the Sergeants Revolt in 1933 led by Fulgencio Batista. A seven year military dictatorship was installed ending with the Cuban revolution in 1959, thereafter began the Fidelista period.]

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