Former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista pictured in 1935. Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. On New Year’s Day of 1958, Batista took his family, friends and bags of money on a plane 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 ...

Moncada was the second largest military garrison in Cuba. Although Castro's assault failed, it earned him recognition as a leader of the opposition against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. On ...

Fulgencio Batista was hardly ripe for retirement. He talked of a long trip among Cuba’s neighbor countries; perhaps the ex-cane-chopper dreamed of becoming a voice in all Latin America. He was a ...

Gloria Estefan still has the Pan Am tickets her father, Jose, sent her and her mother to get them out of Cuba. Gloria was two ...

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 ...