| Federico Laredo Bru became president. Batista remained the real dictator, and his regime, after 1933, embarked on a policy that apparently aimed at a corporatist state along Fascist lines. All political and social opposition was dealt with in drastic fashion. At the same time the government threw itself into radical social legislation and adopted (July 25, 1937) a three-year plan that involved state control of the sugar and mining industries, the reorganization of agricultural schools, the distribution of land, etc. | 4 |
