Manuel Márquez Sterling
Manuel Márquez Sterling ( born August 28, 1872 in Lima, Peru; † 9 December 1934 in Cuba) was a Cuban journalist, writer, diplomat and politician. He was on 18 January 1934 by 6.10 bis 12.00 clock clock President of the Republic of Cuba.
The less than six hours presidency of Manuel Márquez Sterling is one of the curiosities of Cuban history, but also reflects the turbulent circumstances of an era resist, in which, after the fall of the dictator Gerardo Machado, the new army chief Fulgencio Batista had the real political power, while in the dispute with the parties and organizations, and the U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery involved in the overthrow of Machado therefore endeavored to enforce it agreeable to the President to the Parliament and the Cuban people.
Manuel Márquez Sterling was born in Lima in Peru. His father was a representative of the Cuban independence movement in Peru. At age 16, he was already writing articles for various Cuban newspapers under the name Manuel Márquez Mola (his mother's name was Loret de Mola Belén ). He made the acquaintance of José Martí, the Cuban poet and freedom fighter. 1895, at the beginning of the War of Independence against Spain in Cuba, he advocated for a trip to Spain there publicly the independence struggle. After his return to Havana he was arrested for his separatist attitude. He left Cuba and went first to Mexico, then to the USA, where he worked as a secretary for the agents of the Cuban independence movement Gonzalo de Quesada in Washington.
He joined the resistance against the dictatorship of Machado and was under President Carlos Hevia parliamentary secretary. As Hevia pressure on Batista after only two days gave up his presidency, Manuel Márquez Sterling agreed to provided to the office of Carlos Mendieta y Montefur as in the Constitution, to take over the presidency.
Manuel Márquez Sterling wrote 15 books on diverse topics such as literature, chess and history.
As Cuban Ambassador Márquez Sterling signed in Washington, DC on 29 May 1934, the agreement by which the Platt Amendment, through which the U.S. had a military intervention in Cuba right secured, lost its validity and could be removed from the Cuban Constitution.
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Carlos M. de Cespedes | Salvador C. Betancourt | Juan B. Spotorno | Tomás Estrada Palma | Francisco J. de Céspedes | Vicente García | Manuel de Jesús Calvar | Salvador Cisneros Betancourt | Bartolomé Maso | Tomás Estrada Palma | José Miguel Gómez | Mario García Menocal | Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso | Gerardo Machado y Morales | Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada | La Pentarquía ( Ramón Grau San Martín, Guillermo Portela, Jose Miguel Irizarri, Sergio Carbó, Porfirio Franca ) | Ramón Grau San Martín | Carlos Hevia | Manuel Márquez Sterling | Carlos Mendieta y Montefur | José A. Barnet | Miguel Mariano Gómez | Federico Laredo Brú | Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar | Ramón Grau San Martín | Carlos Prio Socarrás | Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar | Anselmo Alliegro y Mila | Manuel Urrutia Lleó | Osvaldo Torrado Dorticós | Fidel Castro Ruz | Raúl Castro Ruz
- President ( Cuba)
- Minister of Foreign Affairs (Cuba)
- Cuban Ambassador
- Ambassador to the United States
- Journalist (Cuba)
- Cuban
- Born in 1872
- Died in 1934
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