page_title: Federico Laredo Brú
section_title: Rise to power
hierarchical_section_title: Federico Laredo Brú / Rise to power
caption_attribution_description: English: Leonor Montes de Laredo Bru, former First Lady of Cuba
context_page_description: Dr. Federico Laredo Brú was an attorney and served as President of Cuba from 1936 to 1940. He was married to Leonor Gomez-Montes.
context_section_description: Laredo Brú's rise to power began in January 1936 as Vice President. When Miguel Mariano Gómez, son of former president José Miguel Gómez, won the presidential election, strongman Fulgencio Batista engineered the impeachment of Gómez in December 1936 for having vetoed a bill to create rural schools under army control.  Federico Laredo Brú served the concluding years of Gómez' term leading the way for an ambitious Batista.
caption: Leonor Gómez-Montes de Laredo Brú, First Lady of Cuba
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