- Federico Laredo Brú
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order =13th
office =President of Cuba
term_start =December 24 ,1936
term_end =October 10 ,1940
predecessor =Miguel M. Gómez
successor =Fulgencio Batista
birth_date =April 23 ,1875
birth_place =Remedios, Cuba
death_date =July 1946
death_place =Havana ,Cuba
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footnotes =Dr. Federico Laredo Brú (Remedios, Las Villas, Cuba on April 23,1875 – July 1946 in
Havana, Cuba ) was an attorney and served as the 13th President ofCuba from 1936 to 1940. He was married to Leonor Montes.Rise to power
Brú's rise to power began in January 1936 as Vice President. When
Miguel Mariano Gomez , son of former presidentJosé Miguel Gómez won the presidential election, strongmanFulgencio Batista , engineered the impeachment of Gomez in December 1936 for having vetoed a bill to create rural schools under army control. Federico Laredo Bru served the concluding years of Gomez' term leading the way for an ambitious Batista. [cite news
author=
title=Spring Fever
date=1937-04-26
work=Time Magazine
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,757689,00.html
accessdate=2008-08-14]ocial and economic programs
Under Federico Laredo Brú, amnesties were granted including to the former
dictator Gerardo Machado and the the Cuban Congress passed many social welfare measures as well as laws creatingpensions ,insurance ,minimum wage s, and limited working hours.In 1937 Brú pushed for the passage of the
Law of Sugar Coordination which organized smallfarmer s intocooperative s and unionized agricultural workers, guaranteedtenant farmer s a share of their crop and were not to be deprived of their fields if they worked them.Brú also issued a
decree that stated all businesses should be headed by Cuban nationals. Workers unionized, particularly into theConfederation of Cuban Workers , a union in which Communists had substantial influence. [ [http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=694 Historical Text Archive: Cuba 1934-1952] ]Cuban-U.S. relations
Though the
United States had been a dominant force in Cuban politics since 1898 causing anti-American sentiment among the educated, the U.S. presence was lessened under Brú.St. Louis
On May 13, 1939, the
ocean liner SS St. Louis had stopped off the coast of Cuba after leavingHamburg, Germany . The ship was then refused asylum by Federico Laredo Brú. This prompted a near mutiny. Two people attempted suicide and dozens more threatened to do the same. However, 29 of the refugees were able to disembark at Havana. [ cite book |author= Rosen, Robert |title=Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |location=New York, NY |year=2006 |pages=563 |isbn=1-56025-778-4 |oclc= |doi=]References
* cite book
last = Otero
first = Juan Joaquin
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title = Libro De Cuba, Una Enciclopedia Ilustrada Que Abarca Las Artes, Las Letras, Las Ciencias, La Economia, La Politica, La Historia, La Docencia, Y ElProgreso General De La Nacion Cubana — Edicion Conmemorative del Cincuentenario de la Republica de Cuba, 1902–1952
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year = 1954
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