Word: batista
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...went off to war. Writer Bruce Henderson was still in high school when World War II ended, but he was an Associated Press reporter in Buenos Aires in 1955 when Perón was overthrown. Later, as TIME's man in the Caribbean, he covered the fall of Batista and the emergence of Castro in Cuba...
...other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio Batista and became world-famous for his handbook of dirty tricks, La Guerra de Guerrillas. He was Cuba's first economic czar, running the national bank, then the Ministry of Industries, all the while plotting to extend Castro's revolution throughout Latin America with "wars of national liberation." Always...
There, last week, on the anniversary of the July 26, 1953, attack that began the revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, more than 200,000 Cubans gathered to hear Fidel...
Into the Hills. Urbane and well-educated, Rodriguez joined the party in 1930, while a law student at Havana University, soon proved himself one of its most practical politicians. In 1944, when the Communists were supporting Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Rodriguez even became a minister without portfolio in Batista's Cabinet for seven months. That palship lasted until the mid-1950s, and when Castro started his revolution in the Sierra Maestra, Rodriguez hurried into the hills to become liaison man with the underground in the cities...
...questioners were led by Jose Martinez, a member of a Cuban exile group called the "30th of November Movement." Addressing Bedford, Martin-quoted a figure of 113,000 political prisoners in Cuba and asserted that civil rights were being violated more drastically under Castro than under Batista...