They weren’t allowed anything basically," says Henthorne. Henthorne has studied Cuba's rich history. He explains, Batista brought in mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky from Las Vegas and appointed him ...

Fidel Castro landed in western Cuba and launched his guerrilla campaign, and Batista’s new officers proved unable to defeat it. By the end of 1958, the Batista government was about to fall and ...

In other major developments: --Two sons of President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba and several other persons flew to New York yesterday while the rebel radios were broadcasting that the fall of the ...

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 government was at loggerheads over Cuba’s tourist-trapping casinos, closed since the fall of Batista. At first Fidel Castro opposed gambling on principle. Provisional President Urrutia ...

DAYTONA BEACH — The Cuban art collection at the Museum of Arts & Sciences attracts busloads of Cuban-Americans from South Florida to see an exhibit that chronicles 300 years of Cuban history and ...

By 1958, the revolution had spread throughout Cuba, culminating in the fall of Havana in early 1959. Batista fled the country in 1959 and Castro formed a liberal nationalist government.

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 ...