I looked up ZAYAS on Wikipedia & he's kinda portrayed as no worse than the rest of them but I'm re-reading Hudson Strode's THE PAGEANT OF CUBA & Strode uses an unattributed quote & MO' to describe how ZAYAS plundered~ "A foreign engineer, interested in comparative costs on bridge-repairing,took a list of seven bridges that the records showed had been recently repaired at a cost of $367,000. He found not only that the repairs had not been made, but that not one of the bridges had ever existed!"
As the stench of corruption rose to heaven, the decent Cubans-really remarkably long-patienced in supporting governmental abuses-were roused to protest. On April first, 1923, arraigning the government, the Cuban Committee of National and Civic Renovation met and the next day published a manifesto denouncing the evils.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Zayas_y_Alfonso