The Revolution of 1933, the 1952 Coup d'Etat, and the Repression of Communism. Memoirs of Mayor General Martín Díaz Tamayo. - Paperbackby Antonio Rafael de La Cova (Author) Antonio Rafael de la Cova was born in Havana in 1950 and went into exile on February 1, 1961. He holds a PhD in History from West Virginia University (1994). He was a professor at the University of South Carolina Columbia. He died in 2018. He was the author of Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio Jos Gonzales (2003), The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution (2007), Colonel Henry Theodore Titus: