It was a busy forenoon for Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba’s Chief of Army Staff. At 8 a.m. he and his staff arrived at La Punta, Cuba’s Naval headquarters outside Havana, and ate breakfast ...

Swart, nimble little Colonel Fulgencio Batista, “Cuban Strong Man” and most likable of Caribbean dictators, has been fixing himself up during the past year with a brand-new reputation as a ...

Ramon M. Barquin, a Cuban military officer who was imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful coup against Fulgencio Batista in 1956, died of cancer March 3 at his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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 ...

Since the fall of the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, Cuba has been a one-party state led by Mr Castro and his successors . Exploiting the Cold War, he was for decades able to ...

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’s a subject that conventional American wisdom has long reduced to a simplistic and vacuous either/or formula: Surely, no Cuban could hate both Batista and Fidel. This is why so many Americans ...

By Wednesday afternoon, the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights confirmed that 18 prisoners, including Barreto Batista, had been released. Officials said the prisoner releases were part of a broader ...