Cuban democracy was shaky and corrupt — but it turned out to be infinitely preferable to the succeeding alternatives. In 1952, the military, led by Fulgencio Batista, overthrew the elected ...

The 3.23-mile track stretched across El Malecón, the gorgeous palm-tree lined esplanade that crept across the seafront, and was the personal idea of one Fulgencio Batista. Batistia had been Cuba ...

Fulgencio Batista, 56, was alive, elated and still President. Normality came back fast. In jammed planes U.S. tourists, held out of Cuba for a few hours when the airport was closed, flooded in ...

Cuban Revolution leader, former president army general Raul Castro paid homage to Cuban heroine Vilma Espin, his wife and ...

The art collection is a legacy of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, who lived in Daytona Beach off and on during the 1940s and 1950s. It also represents a forgotten footnote in the ongoing ...

it earned him recognition as a leader of the opposition against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. On March 10, 1952, Cubans had awakened to the news that Fulgencio Batista, a former president and ...

Lawyer Fidel Castro’s revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba’s rugged ...

Wednesday, April 9, 1958 dawned as a sunny and apparently calm day in much of the country, but at 11:00 a.m. the calm was ...

Rebels begin moving into Havana HAVANA, Jan. 2, 1959 (UPI) - Fidel Castro, the 32-year-old rebel who led a successful revolt against Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, was ready to make a ...