The Cuban Revolution began in July 1953 when Fidel Castro and his followers led a revolt against President Fulgencio Batista. Batista as a leader was more of a dictator and life in Cuba was not ...

Noisy, arrogant Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba’s would-be Dictator who lately rallied 100,000 Cuban peasants to his side with the highly original slogan of a “9% sugar tax to educate Cuban ...

He went underground when Batista seized the Cuban government by coup in 1952, but on July 26, 1953, he emerged as the leader of 200 young men in a vain attack on the Moncada barracks stronghold in ...

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 ...

The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, one of the civil groups, said that by 4 p.m. EST, 18 people had been released, including Barreto Batista. “At three in the morning they knocked,” Barreto ...

Yesterday its leaders expressed ... against oppression in Cuba. It organized in 1932 to oppose the Machado regime, and reformed in 1952 to aid in the overthrow of Batista. The hotbed of ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump reinstated Cuba 's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, reversing ...

Castro overcame imprisonment at the hands of dictator Fulgencio Batista, exile in Mexico and ... Stone’s second documentary on the Cuban leader from 2004. “Here is a conclusion I’ve come ...

A new chant is heard across Cuba: paredón, "to the wall," meaning death by firing squad. February 7: Members of Castro's 26th of July Movement underground and leaders of the anti-Batista ...