Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NEWS, Webster might have added, is also reflection-clear second thoughts on current history. A chapter of Cuban history ended the day Dictator Batista fled. Were the facts for an appraisal at hand? Could the course of the new government be predicted? To TIME, Fidel Castro's triumph was...
Graft and terror inflamed Cuba's people against Batista and helped add Cuba to Latin America's four-year chain of democratic upheavals. But in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, the army, while shucking its dictator-boss, remained nearly intact and moderated the transition to free elections. In Cuba...
AFTER every debauch, someone must pick up - the pieces and arrange to pay the damages. In Argentina, nearly bankrupt after a giddy decade under Dictator Juan Perón, the cleanup man is dour, professorial Arturo Frondizi, 50, the country's 31st President. Frondizi is the successor to Provisional...
Given this situation, would the United States have recognized Urrutia's government? If not, how would the Administration have justified the support of a dictator who obviously lacked the support of his countrymen? If recognition had been extended, what would have been the essential difference between this situation and a...
HAVANA, Cuba--Rebel leader Fidel Castro has derided reports that supporters of the ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista would try to invade Cuba from Batista's refuge in the Dominican Republic. Castro spoke yesterday as Cuba's revolutionary tribunals prepared to start war crimes trials today of Batista henchmen at La...