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| | American Experience | Fidel Castro | People & Events | PBS |
 | | The case of Comandante Huber Matos, sentenced by Fidel Castro's regime to 20 years in prison for "acts of sedition and treason" only nine months after the rebel victory, signaled a breakdown in the revolutionary coalition and the demise of the "moderates" in Cuba's revolutionary government. |
 | | Like Fidel Castro, Matos was a member of a political party, Partido Ortodoxo, that was opposed to the government of Fulgencio Batista. |
 | | On October 19, 1959, Matos sent Castro a second letter of resignation, writing, "I don't want to become an obstacle to the revolution, and believe the honorable and revolutionary option is to step down." He would later say, "I did not want to provoke a conflict. |
| www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/e_moderates.html (1655 words) |
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