Carlos Hevia

Carlos Hevia y de los Reyes Gavilán ( born March 21, 1900 in Havana, † April 2, 1964 in Florida, United States) was an engineer, Cuban politician and only two days, from January 16 to January 18, 1934, President of Cuba.

Life

His engineering studies completed Carlos Hevia at the Naval Academy in Annapolis / USA. At the First World War, he took part as American naval officer. Hevia took an active part in the resistance against the Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado. In 1931, he landed with 40 fighters in Gibara in the north of the former province of Oriente. The Luftwaffe bombed Machado out the resort.

Under President Ramón Grau San Martín, he was Secretary of Agriculture. After the withdrawal of gray Hevia was President of Cuba for two days. The brevity of his term of office was only by his successor Manuel Márquez Sterling undercut, who had to vacate the Speaker's chair after a few hours of office. The real power was in those years in the hands of the army chiefs Fulgencio Batista, the Supreme Carlos Mendieta Montefur and the U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery.

In 1948, Carlos Hevia Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State in 1940 and 1951, President of the Commission for National Development. He was the presidential candidate of the Partido Auténtico for the planned 1952 elections, which it did not come in March of the same year due to the coup of Batista. He then went into exile in Florida.

After the Cuban Revolution had taken in 1959 under the leadership of Fidel Castro, a dictatorial and pro-Communist course, he was active in the American exile to overthrow Castro. He belonged to the Cuban Revolutionary Council in 1961 ( Consejo Revolucionario Cubano ), a largely consisting of former senior members of the Revolutionary Army panel chaired the first Prime Minister after the fall of Fulgencio Batista, José Miró Cardona.