MANUEL URRUTIA; WAS FOE OF CASTRO (original) (raw)
MANUEL URRUTIA; WAS FOE OF CASTRO
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MANUEL URRUTIA
- July 6, 1981
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Manuel Urrutia Lleo, the first President of revolutionary Cuba, who later became a vocal foe of Fidel Castro, died yesterday at St. John's Hospital in Queens. He was 79 years old.
A former judge, Mr. Urrutia made an unlikely revolutionary. He nonetheless took office as the provisional President on Jan. 2, 1959, at Mr. Castro's request and served until his dismissal six months later, when the Cuban leader accused him of treason in a televised speech.
Mr. Urrutia charged that he had been ousted because Mr. Castro sought to prevent the ''neutralization of his own march toward Communism.'' Defiant and bitter, he later settled accounts in a book, ''Fidel Castro & Company, Inc.: Communist Tyranny in Cuba.''
It was published in New York in 1964, a year after he reached the United States with a safe-conduct pass after years of house arrest and asylum in the Venezuelan and Mexican Embassies in Havana. Leader of Anti-Castro Group
In 1964 Mr. Urrutia became the leader of the newly formed Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, a merger of 22 anti-Castro exile groups, according to claims made at the time.
After arriving in the United States in April 1963, Mr. Urrutia declared that the people of Cuba yearned for assistance from abroad to rid themselves of Communism. ''The situation has changed since the Bay of Pigs invation,'' he said, ''and today 90 percent of the Cubans want to be free from the tyranny of the Communist Castro regime.''
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