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Family
Born on January 16,1901,banes,Cuba. He has 3 brothers and had 5 sons and 1 daughter. -
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Fulgencio Batista
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Fulgencio Batista ruled Cuba
Fulgencio Batista ruled Cuba twice once as a rather effective leader, then later as a brutal dictator. Batista first led Cuba in 1933 and strengthened his rule through patronage by sponsoring a number of public-works programs and cultivating the army and civil service. In 1944, after his term expired, he left Cuba and traveled abroad. -
They won
Fifty years after Fidel Castro led a band of rebels to victory over a US-backed dictator, his revolution goes on. -
he was cheif
Batista with U.S. Army Chief of staff Malin Craig in Washington, D.C., riding in an Armistice Day parade, 1938. -
Familey
Cuban President Fulgencio Batista posing with his family. Batista was president of Cuba from 1940. -
Presidential Palace
Batista, having breakfast in the Presidential Palace with wife Marta Fernandez Miranda, eight months before he fled Cuba. -
president
Cuba's outgoing President Andrew Domingo Morales de Castillo (left) hugs his successor, General Fulgencio Batista, after the latter was sworn in Feb. 24. 1955. -
resignation
On news that Fidel Castro resigned from the Central Committee of Cuba's Communist Party, my colleague Ishaan Tharoor over at TIME's Global Spin blog reached into the magazine's archives to pull out the cover story on Fidel Castro from January 26, 1959. Here's an excerpt. -
He was the president
President of Cuba Fulgencio Batista pictured with various Cuban army officers after successfully crushing another coup. -
When he died
Died on august 6,1973 Guadalmina he was 72. Two days before a team of assassins from Castro's Cuba could carry out a plan to kill him. On New Year's Eve 1958, Fulgencio Batista left Cuba before the break of dawn, with one hundred and eighty of his closest associates, having amassed a fortune of as much as to $300 million. Batista lived the rest of his life in splendor in Spain and in Portugal.
