When Gerardo Machado’s hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then 32, astounded the Western Hemisphere by taking over the Army and the Government. At first the strong man ...

Jose Pedraza was also a sergeant when Sergeant Batista headed the non-commissioned officers’ revolt which ended the rule of onetime President Gerardo Machado. Chief of Police of Havana and ...

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, a chubby man of 56, last week commemorated the day 24 years ago when, as a lowly army sergeant, he threw out a bumbling government and began his long career as off ...

The seeds of trouble were sown back in 1933 when a brash, swarthy sergeant named Fulgencio Batista and several fellow sergeants ousted the corrupt officers’ clique that controlled the Government ...

José Batista, who was fired from his post as executive director of the Providence External Review Authority after releasing video footage of former Providence police Sgt. Joseph Hanley allegedly ...