Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having failed to crush Rebel Fidel Castro in the hills, President Fulgencio Batista turned to politics to break the stalemate. Last week his Progressive Action Party designated a candidate for the June 1 elections; barring a Castro military victory or some other upset, Batista's man is virtually certain of election...
...full-fledged strongmen are left. Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, 57, who took power in a comeback coup when it became obvious that he could not win the 1952 election, is insecure in the saddle after trying for 14 months without success to smash an ever-strengthening guerrilla revolt in Cuba's eastern mountains. Only the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 66, now playing host to exiled Pérez Jiménez and his crew, still keeps the lid clamped shut on his rich, thoroughly cowed little island nation...
...order of President Fulgencio Batista, Cuba prepared this week to take a turn toward democracy. The suspensions of constitutional guarantees that have deprived Cubans of freedom of speech, press, assembly and habeas corpus for virtually the entire 14 months of Fidel Castro's rebellion lapse this week, and Batista's Cabinet announced they would not be reimposed. Instead, all Cuba except rebel-ridden Oriente province is to retrieve its freedom, and even Oriente will recover one constitutional right-free assembly...
...miraculous conversion to democracy. The Cuban constitution required a regular presidential election; prevailing public opinion held that an honest election required restoration of constitutional guarantees for at least 90 days before the June 1 balloting. And the U.S. Government, whose approval and arms shipments are invaluable to Batista, put discreet pressure on him to observe the law and hold free elections...
...long would Batista be able to operate without his coercive apparatus? Widely circulated Bohemia magazine announced that its next edition would contain many facts and stories suppressed under censorship. The rebels said they would try to bring off a general strike in Havana. At week's end, emboldened rebel bands seized two Havana radio stations long enough to broadcast anti-Batista recordings, forcefully pointing out what a general strike had achieved in Caracas...