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Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar [a] [b] (born Rubén Zaldívar; [2] January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power as part of the 1933 Revolt of the Sergeants.
This article lists the heads of state of Cuba from 1902 until the present day. ... Name (Birth–Death) Term Political party ... Fulgencio Batista (1901–1973)
This article lists the heads of government of Cuba from 1940 until the present day. ... Name (Birth–Death) Term Political party ... Fulgencio Batista: 2: Ramón ...
Andrés Rivero Agüero, Cuba's prime minister from March 1957 to March 1958; Anselmo Alliegro, acting president of Cuba for one day (1–2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country; Antonio Guiteras, politician and revolutionary; Antonio Maceo, revolutionary, military strategist
The 26 July Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 26 de julio; M-26-7) was a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization and later a political party led by Fidel Castro.The movement's name commemorates the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, part of an attempt to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista.
January–February Many members of the Batista regime are judged, sentenced and executed by the new government. Many of these trials were held in stadiums with executions shortly after trial, with the accused denied legal counsel. February 16 Fidel Castro is named Prime Minister of Cuba, in substitution of José Miró Cardona.
After arriving and exiting the ship, the band of rebels began to make their way into the Sierra Maestra mountains, a range in southeastern Cuba. Three days after the trek began, Batista's army attacked and killed most of the Granma participants – while the exact number is disputed, no more than twenty of the original eighty-two men survived ...
The new revolutionary government would name 1959 the "year of liberation", because of the year's efforts to deconstruct the old Batista government structures. [27] Castro had made his opinion clear that lawyer Manuel Urrutia Lleó should become president, leading a provisional civilian government following Batista's fall. Politically moderate ...