<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN">Cuba&rsquo;s political life en 1952 was a sorrowful melodrama Carlos Pr</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">o had introduced reforms and gangsterism had diminished; his administration was better definitely than Ram</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&oacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">n Grau San Mart</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&iacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">n&rsquo;s, his predecesor. People, however, were looking at politicians with little if any respect. Eduardo Chib</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&aacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">s had demolished whatever stability was left of Cuba&rsquo;s fragile political life. Then, on march 10, 1952, an unexpected Batista <em>Coup d&rsquo;</em></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&Eacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">tat</span></em><span style="font-size: small;"> shocked the country; its suddenness stymied any attempts of resistance. Some Cubans felt an impotent rage; others an instantaneous numbness, followed by a cold apathy; a few showed absolute indifference. There was no public outrage; at most only regret and annoyance. The toppled Aut</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&eacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">ntico rulers &mdash;after eight years of misgovernment&mdash; lacked the moral authority needed to plea for national support. This is the story of the <em>Three Days in March</em> when Cuba began to desintegrate.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Ra</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&uacute;</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">l Eduardo Chao received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University at age 25 and after a brief stint in industry spent 18 years in academe, as full professor and Department Chairman at the Universities of Puerto Rico and Detroit. In 1986 he founded a very successful management consultancy assisting companies and government agencies to develop positive work environments and process improvement techniques as the means to secure improvements in productivity and quality.</span></p>