Machado hung onto power after his term as President ended and the protestors were in opposition to him. The timelines are somewhat out of whack, but Cuba was saturated with pro and anti-Machado violence. By then the US would have been on its way to withdrawing from Cuba. Machado's people may have viewed Nucky as simply another form of US domination of Cuba so they tried to kill him. On the other hand, revolutionaries might have viewed Nucky as allied with Machado.
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