Word: fulgencio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's dynamic President, hates fat Francisco Franco of Spain and does not care who knows it. A month ago, after a visit to Washington, President Batista announced that an Allied invasion of Falangist Spain would bring a "total ovation . . . throughout all Latin America" (TIME...
Cuba's shrewd, ebullient President Fulgencio Batista is no dilettante in power politics. He is a tough hombre who speaks his mind. Last week, after visiting with Washington dignitaries in the U.S., Batista said his piece about a pompous, would-be tough guy across the Atlantic. His theme: If the United Nations go to war with Francisco Franco's Spain, Latin America will be on the United Nations' side...
...Entertained an eminent Good Neighbor: Cuba's stocky, determined President Fulgencio Batista...
...York on a visit from the land of fast political football, eight-year-old "Papo," son of Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista, ran into the real thing, promptly took it up in deadly earnest for photographers...
...refusal to join Adolf Coeur de Lion's crusade kept the Nazi campaign from gaining headway among the more statesmanlike of Latin America's leaders. Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo joined Brazil's Getulio Vargas and Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in broadcasting good-neighborly greetings to the U.S. on the Fourth of July...