The Government candidates had everything. They were backed by President Fulgencio Batista, Cuba’s boss for more than a decade, by the Army, the public job holders and their families, by a juicy ...

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 ...

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 ...

This revolutionary struggle for liberation, which ousted Cuba’s unconstitutional Batista dictatorship of the 1950s, did not resort to the terrorism that the illegal dictatorship deployed against ...

The late Harry Reasoner covered the overthrow of General Batista in 1959 and returned to Cuba 30 years later for an update on the revolution This week President Obama began talks to lift an ...

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 ...