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 ...

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 ...

Last week, amid a faint suspicion of judicial complaisance Cuba's tough, bronze little boss, Fulgencio Batista, got the job of President of the Republic, which he had badly wanted ever since ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...