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 ...

Miró united anti-Batista groups in exile under the banner of Castro’s 26th of July Movement. Four days after Castro’s triumph, Miró was named Premier of Cuba (Castro stayed on as armed ...

A self-made man who rose to power through the military, Batista was first elected the president of Cuba in 1940. He came to Daytona Beach and bought a house on North Halifax Avenue in the mid ...