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2 days ago · The most significant of these leaders was Fulgencio Batista. Rising from the rank of army sergeant, Batista emerged in 1934 as the head of a popular rebellion against the dictator Gerardo Machado and over the next 25 years was the dominant political figure in the country.
5 days ago · Fulgencio Batista Zaldivar (1902-1975) The product of plantation-worker parents, Fulgencio Batista was born in Cuba's rural Oriente Province in 1902. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Cuban army, working his way through the enlisted ranks until September 4, 1933, when he led a "Revolt of the Sergeants," which toppled the ...
1 day ago · In March 1952, a Cuban general and politician, Fulgencio Batista, seized power on the island, proclaimed himself president, and deposed the discredited president Carlos Prío Socarrás of the Partido Auténtico. Batista canceled the planned presidential elections and described his new system as "disciplined democracy."
3 days ago · Mr. Smith first arrived in Cuba in the midst of the revolution against the government of Fulgencio Batista. After the government fell on Jan. 1, 1959, he oversaw the evacuation of U.S. citizens ...
1 day ago · Her family occupied a political dynasty that was closely connected to Fulgencio Batista, the strongman president who was overthrown by Castro’s rebels in January 1959. She then was among the matriarchs of the Cuban diaspora — concentrated in South Florida — that included nephews elected to Congress, Rep. Mario DiazBalart, R-Fla., and former congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart, R-Fla.
3 days ago · In the years following its independence, the Cuban republic saw significant economic development, but also political corruption and a succession of despotic leaders, culminating in the overthrow of the dictator Fulgencio Batista by the 26th of July Movement, led by Fidel Castro, during the 1953–1959 Cuban Revolution.
2 days ago · But the campaign was halted in March 1952 when Batista staged a coup and retook the presidency he first held in the 1940s. (The post-coup parliament included Ms. Díaz-Balart’s brother, Rafael ...
