"The former president of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, that was my daddy," she said. It's true. Carmela's mother, Marina Estevez, had a romance with the married Cuban leader in 1934.

General Fulgencio Batista, former president of Cuba, during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. When he was barred by the Cuban constitution from running for a second term in 1944, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

WEST PALM BEACH - Marta Fernandez de Batista, the widow of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, has died at her home, her son said Wednesday. She was 82. She died at her West Palm Beach home ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marta Batista lived for years in Palm Beach and died in 2006. Florida Time archives: Get caught up on the stories you’ve missed READER REWIND: Everyone has their own piece of Florida history.

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