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    Alfredo de Zayas y Alfonso (February 21, 1861 – April 11, 1934), usually known as Alfredo de Zayas under Spanish naming customs and also known as Alfredo...
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    diplomats. Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, a lawyer, poet and politician, served as President of Cuba from 1921 to 1925. He was the son of Dr. José María de Zayas y Jiménez...
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    February 1917" La Chambelona (Chambelona War), with José Miguel Gómez, Alfredo Zayas, and Enrique Loynaz del Castillo. The Liberals were defeated. Calixto...
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    Zayas began to split the Liberal party. A strong showing by the Conservatives against the divided Liberals convinced them to rejoin. Gómez and Zayas won...
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  • surname Zayas: Zayas de Báscones, Soria (es) Zayas de la Torre, Soria (es) Zayas de Torre, Soria (es) Zayuelas, Soria (es) Zay, Navarra Zaya, Navarra...
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    scholars. In his book Lexicografia Antillana, former president of Cuba Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso stated that the word "ajiaco" derived from "aji", the native...
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    prime minister of Cuba was Carlos Saladrigas Zayas (1900–1957), the nephew of former President Alfredo Zayas. The prime minister was also sometimes referred...
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  • Argentina Alfredo Sirkis (1950–2020), Brazilian politician and writer Alfredo Stroessner (1912–2006), President of Paraguay Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso (1861–1934)...
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    popular party that wanted Cuba to go toward local autonomy, headed by Alfredo Zayas. Both supported Estrada Palma. However, he did not campaign but instead...
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    to the Cuban Senate. He served as Secretary of the Presidency under Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso. In 1927, he was the Cuban delegate to the League of Nations...
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    Menocal (1866–1941) 20 May 1913 20 May 1921 8 years PNC 1912 1916 – 4 Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso (1861–1934) 20 May 1921 20 May 1925 4 years Liberal 1920 –...
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  • in the Senate) and 1918. In the 1920 elections, the Liberal Party's Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso won the presidential election, although the party lost the...
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    nepotism as Zayas relied on friends and relatives to illegally gain greater access to wealth.[page needed] Gerardo Machado succeeded Zayas from 1925 to...
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  • Alfredo Zayas was elected president in 1920 and took office in 1921. When the Cuban financial system collapsed after a drop in sugar prices, Zayas secured...
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    Presidential Palace-Parquey Alfredo Zayas...
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    General elections were held in Cuba on 1 November 1920. Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso won the presidential election, whilst the National League (an alliance...
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    from the Canary Islands. He was the brother of Dr. Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso and Dr. Francisco de Zayas, who was the Ambassador of Cuba in Paris and Brussels...
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    de Zayas has been married to Carolina Jolanda Edelenbos, a Dutch national and UN official, with whom he had a son, Stefan (deceased). De Zayas' work...
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    to 1918, and Vice President of the Republic from 1921 to 1925, when Alfredo Zayas was elected as president.[citation needed] (Alberto y Arturo García...
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    Méndez Capote January 1906 September 1906 Vacant between 1906 and 1909 Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso January 1909 May 1913 José Miguel Gómez Enrique José Varona...
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  • President (1909–1913) Mario García Menocal, President (1913–1921) Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, President (1921–1925) Gerardo Machado, President (1925–1933)...
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    Cuba. Domingo Méndez Capote [es] presided and Enrique Villuendas and Alfredo Zayas served as secretaries.[citation needed] The convention's central committee...
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    Varona and Emilio Núñez Preceded by José Miguel Gómez Succeeded by Alfredo Zayas Personal details Born (1866-12-17)December 17, 1866 Jagüey Grande, Matanzas...
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    Legum Doctor in 1916. In 1922 he was requested by the President of Cuba Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso to reorganize the country's financial and accounting systems...
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    Army Corps Chief of Engineers; Julio de Cárdenas, Mayor of Havana; Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Vice President of Cuba; and members of the Cuban Cabinet...
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  • The U.S. intervenes on behalf of Menocal's government. 1921 20 May Alfredo Zayas becomes president. 1925 23 March By the Hay-Quesada Treaty, the U.S...
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  • of Cuba when the Liberal Party of Cuba split between supporters of Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso and supporters of José Miguel Gómez. Still, the conservative-liberal...
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  • Menocal María de la Asunción Jaén y Planas May 20, 1921 May 20, 1925 Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso Elvira Machado Nodal May 20, 1925 August 12, 1933 Gerardo...
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  • accounts, Zayas played with several son ensembles such as Sexteto Habanero and Sexteto Boloña, before focusing on rumba and other Afro-Cuban genres. Zayas became...
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    by the PWX on 10 October, with the issuance of a speech by President Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso. The radio stations in the country were developed by private...
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