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as part of the coup that overthrew the government of Gerardo Machado.
The Sergeants’ Revolt did not overthrow Gerardo Machado. Machado fled on August 12, 1933; Batista’s revolt on September 4 overthrew the provisional government of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
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This sentence collapses two separate events into one.
- Gerardo Machado fell in August 1933, when he fled Cuba after the general strike and uprising against his dictatorship.
- Batista’s Sergeants’ Revolt happened later, on September 4, 1933, and overthrew Carlos Manuel de Céspedes’s provisional government, not Machado’s government.
Encyclopedia.com’s biography of Batista states that the overthrow of Gerardo Machado's dictatorship in 1933 came first, and then that on September 4, 1933 Batista and anti-Machado students “overthrew Carlos Manuel de Céspedes's provisional government.” Encyclopedia.com’s history of the Cuban republic likewise says Machado “fled to the Bahamas on 12 August 1933” and that “The new president, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Junior), was deposed in a 4 September military coup, dominated by then Sergeant Fulgencio Batista.”
So the article is incorrect to describe the Sergeants’ Revolt as part of the coup that overthrew Machado; Batista’s revolt overthrew Céspedes after Machado had already fallen.
2 sources
- Fulgencio Batista Y Zaldivar | Encyclopedia.com
The overthrow of Gerardo Machado's dictatorship in 1933 released a wave of uncontrolled anger and anxiety... On September 4, 1933, Batista... overthrew Carlos Manuel de Céspedes's provisional government.
- The Republic (1898-1959) | Encyclopedia.com
The result was the overthrow of the dictatorship, and Machado fled to the Bahamas on 12 August 1933. The new president, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Junior), was deposed in a 4 September military coup, dominated by then Sergeant Fulgencio Batista.