Word: batista
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...Canets worked actively to overthrow Batista from 1954 on, and served under Castro until October, 1940. At that time, according to Mrs. Canet, they left Cuba with their two children rather than continue alongside Communists in the government...
...were threatened with deportation or detention camps at McAllen, Texas, if they got out of line. They say that in the final stages, the Pentagon moved in to take direct control of the operation. The Frente representative was removed when he tried to exert some authority, and the Batista followers in the camps moved toward the leadership, working with a militant young opportunist named Manuel Artime, 28, onetime Catholic student leader at Havana University and a Frente subchief who schemed to leapfrog into supreme power. When one Frente man mentioned the Batista recruits to a U.S. colonel, the colonel dismissed...
...known criminal lawyer, a professor's chair at his old university and the presidency of the Cuban College of Lawyers, the equivalent of a national bar association. His most celebrated case: the defense of Army Colonel Ramón Barquín, accused in 1956 of plotting against Batista. Barquín got six years on the Isle of Pines, but Miró's defense was so brilliant that he earned Batista's cordial hatred...
...characteristic response to the dictator's dislike was to try to mediate between Batista and his opposition. But his attempts to draw feuding Cuban factions together ended abruptly in 1958, when Batista suspended all civil rights to cope with the rebellion of Fidel Castro. An organization of Miró's friends, largely conservative businessmen and professional men, denounced the Batista regime for "supporting itself by force." The dictator sent some henchmen to arrest Miró. As they were searching his office, he was making his escape to the Argentine embassy, disguised as a priest...
Moving to Miami eight months before Batista fell, Miró united anti-Batista groups in exile under the banner of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Four days after Castro's triumph, Miró was named Premier of Cuba (Castro stayed on as armed-forces chief). Miró soon realized he was nothing but Castro's puppet, resigned after 39 days. He told a friend: "I cannot run my office while another man is trying to run it from behind a microphone...