| rdfs:comment | - Fulgencio Batista (January 16 1901-August 6 1973) was a dictator of Cuba.
- Fulgencio Batista was the dictator of Cuba in the 1950s.
- Fulgencio Batista è il Presidente e dittatore di Cuba dal 1952 al 1959.
- Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.
- Fulgencio batista (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) was the "elected" President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and its U.S. Governemnt and Cosa Nostra supported military dictator from 1952 to 1959. He was driven from power by the Cuban Revolution.
- Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was sergeant in the Cuban army who joined with several other officials to launch a coup in 1933. He then served as the unofficial power of the country, ruling through puppets until 1940, when he was actually elected President of Cuba, serving from 1940 to 1944. He left Cuba for the United States, but returned in 1952 and ran again for the presidency. When it was clear that he would lose, Batista launched another coup and seized power. While he'd been progressive in his first term, his second term was ruthless and oppressive. His harsh rule prompted a rebellion which saw his ouster, and the eventual installation of a communist regime under Fidel Castro.
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| abstract | - Fulgencio batista (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) was the "elected" President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and its U.S. Governemnt and Cosa Nostra supported military dictator from 1952 to 1959. He was driven from power by the Cuban Revolution. Batista initially rose to power as part of the 1933 "Revolt of the Sergeants" that overthrew the authoritarian rule of Gerardo Machado. After appointing himself chief of the armed forces with the rank of colonel, he maintained power with a succession of puppet presidents until 1940, when he had himself elected President of Cuba on a populist platform. After finishing his term in 1944, Batista lived in the United States, returning to Cuba to run for president in 1952. Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup that preempted the election. Back in power, Batista abandoned all pretence of populism and revealed his true nature as an authoritarian conservative. He aligned his regime with the wealthy sugar plantation owning Cuban elite, American owned corporations with large capital investments in Cuba, and organized crime in the form of Jewish gangsters and La Cosa Nostra. The 1940 Constitution was suspended, the right to strike abolished, and the lucrative drug, gambling, prostitution and pornography rackets in Havana were handed to American mobsters. His regime unleashed increasingly ferocious repression of student and labor groups, while the Eisenhower administration did nothing. That all but the richest and most corrupt Cubans would support a popular rebellion against Batista is unsurprising. His regime was toppled by a successful urban and rural insurgency that culminated in a rebel victory under the command of Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. Batista immediately fled with an amassed personal fortune to the Dominican Republic, where fellow authoritarian conservative dictator Rafael Trujillo held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in Portugal, where he lived until dying of a heart attack on August 6, 1973 near Marbella, Spain.
- Fulgencio Batista (January 16 1901-August 6 1973) was a dictator of Cuba.
- Fulgencio Batista was the dictator of Cuba in the 1950s.
- Fulgencio Batista è il Presidente e dittatore di Cuba dal 1952 al 1959.
- Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution. Batista initially rose to power as part of the 1933 "Revolt of the Sergeants" that overthrew the authoritarian rule of Gerardo Machado. Batista then appointed himself chief of the armed forces, with the rank of colonel, and effectively controlled the five-member Presidency. He maintained this control through a string of puppet presidents until 1940, when he was himself elected President of Cuba on a populist platform. He then instated the 1940 Constitution of Cuba, considered progressive for its time, and served until 1944. After finishing his term he lived in the United States, returning to Cuba to run for president in 1952. Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup that preempted the election. Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans. Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive regime then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large multinational American corporations that had invested considerable amounts of money in Cuba. To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his anti-Communist secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 people. For several years until 1959, the Batista regime received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States of America. Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics, for two years (December 1956 – December 1958) Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista's regime, which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command of Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. Batista immediately fled the island with an amassed personal fortune to the Dominican Republic, where strongman and previous military ally Rafael Trujillo held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in Portugal, where he lived until dying of a heart attack on August 6, 1973 near Marbella, Spain.
- Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was sergeant in the Cuban army who joined with several other officials to launch a coup in 1933. He then served as the unofficial power of the country, ruling through puppets until 1940, when he was actually elected President of Cuba, serving from 1940 to 1944. He left Cuba for the United States, but returned in 1952 and ran again for the presidency. When it was clear that he would lose, Batista launched another coup and seized power. While he'd been progressive in his first term, his second term was ruthless and oppressive. His harsh rule prompted a rebellion which saw his ouster, and the eventual installation of a communist regime under Fidel Castro. Batista died in exile of a heart attack in 1973.
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