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    Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected...
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    dictator Fulgencio Batista, who was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution, which forced the couple to flee permanently into exile. Fulgencio Batista...
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  • Fulgencio Batista, Cuban general, president, and dictator Miguel Batista, Dominican baseball player Pascual Batista, Argentine rower Randas Batista,...
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    Cuba on March 10, 1952, when the Cuban Constitutional Army, led by Fulgencio Batista, intervened in the election that was scheduled to be held on 1 June...
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    (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, which had reigned as the government of Cuba between...
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  • Fulgencio Aquino (1915–1994), Venezuelan musician and songwriter Fulgencio Argüelles (born 1955), Spanish writer and psychologist Fulgencio Batista (1901–1973)...
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    in Santiago de Cuba, part of an attempt to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista. M-26-7 is considered the leading organization of the Cuban Revolution...
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    to 1944 as the first wife of Cuban then-president (later dictator) Fulgencio Batista. Godínez was born in a small farmhouse in the village of Vereda Nueva...
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    the 1952 Cuban coup d'état and the subsequent dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The Batista government was overthrown in January 1959 by the 26th of July...
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    American Experience: Fulgencio Batista. PBS. Cuban History, Architecture & Culture Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Fulgencio Batista: Cuban Dictator...
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  • In the book series, Angel Batista habitually introduces himself as "no relation" (to Cuban former dictator Fulgencio Batista), and as a result is nicknamed...
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  • Partido de Acción Progresista, PAP) was a Cuban political party led by Fulgencio Batista. The party was founded on 1 April 1949, in the aftermath of the 1948...
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    the Army Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista, nominally surrendered the power of the army to the new government, in reality Batista was having talks, making...
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    would leave the island with only memories of Cuba from the era of Fulgencio Batista. These memories formed the genesis of the idealized image of the Cuba...
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  • 100 soldiers died in the strike due to political repression by the Fulgencio Batista government of Cuba. Before the strike, anti government activity had...
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    the US. In September 1933, the Sergeants' Revolt, led by Sergeant Fulgencio Batista, overthrew Céspedes. General Alberto Herrera served briefly as president...
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    Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista. The 60-foot (18 m) diesel-powered vessel was built in 1943 by Wheeler...
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    and the Soviet Union. In 1952, the American-allied dictator General Fulgencio Batista led a coup against President Carlos Prío and forced Prío into exile...
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    military man, Fulgencio Batista. That proclamation was published in every Cuban newspaper the following day. Carbó later promoted Batista from sergeant...
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  • parliamentary politics as a Partido Ortodoxo candidate. When General Fulgencio Batista launched a coup and overthrew the elected presidency, Castro brought...
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    of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held...
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    Sánchez White. Fermin Cowley, who was under the direct orders of Fulgencio Batista on that mission, had the unequivocal instruction not to count surrendered...
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  • political coalition, led by Fulgencio Batista. The party was founded in 1939, and served for the 1940 general elections, won by Batista. The founding parties...
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    yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted...
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    notably presented to Pope Pius XI in 1930 and to the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1957. In 1930, the newly created Vatican City was connected to...
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    Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After...
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    going on to join the opposition movement against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. He joined Castro's 26th of July Movement on its expedition to Cuba...
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    in 1954 as a Catholic student group opposed to the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, defining its principles as political liberty, economic independence...
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    attack was a failed assassination attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista at the Presidential Palace in Havana, Cuba. The attack began at around...
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    efforts to overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, after Castro took power some of its members joined former Batista soldiers and local farmers in the...
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