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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In 1959, Fidel Castro became its leader. Castro had overthrown the dictator of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista. One of Castro’s first moves was to go to the USA to secure support for his new state ...

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 ...