Praetorian Students, American Tanks

1933: Armed Students (and the books?). Key actors in the overthrow of Machado's government. Not just "social" mobilization: military mobilization as well! Samuel Huntington, following pioneering ideas of Sociologist Gino Germani, was the first to link modernization and praetorianism. Yet he dismissed students as a powerful agent of political change. The population of Universidad de la Habana may disagree.


1950s: where do these tanks come from? MAP? If used for internal repression (what else in Cuba?), public opinion in US may get nervous and constraint what decision-makers can do to help Batista rebuild political order.

Too big a university for too small an Island?
Aerial view of the Universidad de la Habana in the 1940s