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1 day ago · Fulgencio Batista, a former soldier who had served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, became president for the second time in 1952, after seizing power in a military coup and canceling the 1952 elections.
Jun 29, 2024 · In Cuba, American interests – mostly tied up in sugar, prostitution rings and casinos – were secured when Fulgencio Batista initiated a coup in 1952.
6 days ago · Cuban Revolution - Fidel Castro, Batista, Uprising: Hundreds of people linked to the Batista government were put to death by revolutionary courts. For financing, Castro turned to expropriation, forced lending, heavier taxation, exchange control, and confiscation of foreign assets.
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Jul 11, 2024 · In March of that year, however, the former Cuban president, Gen. Fulgencio Batista, overthrew the government of Pres. Carlos Prío Socarrás and canceled the elections. After legal means failed to dislodge Batista’s new dictatorship , Castro began to organize a rebel force for the task in 1953.
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1 day 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.
Jul 2, 2024 · Marta Fernández Miranda de Batista (née Fernández Miranda; November 11, 1917 – October 2, 2006), also known as "Marta del Pueblo" (Spanish for 'Marta of the People'), was First Lady of Cuba from 1952 until 1959 as the second wife of Cuban president and dictator Fulgencio Batista, who was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution ...
Jul 17, 2024 · In 1933, a young Cuban army sergeant named Fulgencio Batista led a rebellion that overthrew then-president Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
