Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (Spanish pronunciation: ; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban President, dictator, and military leader closely aligned with and supported by the United ...

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush yesterday named a grandson of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista as the first Hispanic on the Florida Supreme Court. <@SM><@SM><TAB>Raoul Cantero III, a Miami attorney ...

Robert Batista’s father, Fulgencio Batista, was president of Cuba but later became dictator of the island nation, only to be overthrown in 1959 by Fidel Castro, who formed a Communist government.

Fulgencio Batista, Vol. 1: From Revolutionary to Strongman. Frank Argote-Freyre. Rutgers University Press. $29.95. 388 pp. Before Fidel Castro took control in 1959, an earlier Cuban revolution, thi… ...

Fulgencio Batista, Vol. 1: From Revolutionary to Strongman Frank Argote-Freyre, . . Rutgers Univ., $29.95 (388pp) ISBN 978-0-8135-3701-6 ...

Fulgencio Ruben Batista, 66, of Coral Gables, Fla., the late dictator's son, said his important papers are not being thrown out. "Those will one day go to an institution and they are well guarded ...

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar, January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 ...

It was 1937, and although Fulgencio Batista was married, he fell in love with Marta, who was 20 years his junior. “He was enthralled with her,” said Batista biographer Frank Argote-Freyre.

Today, Cuban art provided by Fulgencio Batista from a time before Fidel Castro. Welcome to Florida Time, a weekly column about Florida history.

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 ...

A massive military parade to mark the 50th anniversary of the date Fidel Castro and fellow rebels landed by boat in Cuba to launch their revolution started today without the ailing leader ...