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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Batista Alvarez was shot to death Friday by police officers in Cuba. Facebook, Yosvany Batista The recent killing of a Black teenager by the police in Cuba, and the disturbing details caught on ...

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 ...