Word: fulgencio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine-gun fire, Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Péerez Jiménez toppled with a crash that rattled the Americas' few remaining strongmen. Struggling to avoid a similar end at the hands of mountain guerrillas who have been battling for his overthrow, Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence while Congress tried to decide who won. For a rundown of the week...
Never had Castro taken such chances, showed such strength. Yet this burst of force probably grew out of frustration and disappointment. Castro was tired of waiting for the people to rise up to drive out Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Last week's attacks may well signal that his rebellion has entered a new. tougher and riskier phase. From the hills Castro sent word: "Until now we have spared the cities. But now we realize we must carry the fight to the cities as well as the countryside...
...vices, a few casinos were prospering moderately in the early 1950s. Then some U.S. thugs introduced an eight-dice game called razzle-dazzle, so complex that most suckers never even learned the rules before they were fleeced. As resentment over this form of larceny spread among U.S. tourists, President Fulgencio Batista grew worried. In 1955 he decided to look around for U.S. technical assistance. The man who popped up was Meyer Lansky...
Hotelkeepers all over the Caribbean last week raised their rates to winter levels, officially opening what promised to be the rum-punch belt's splashiest sin-and-sun season yet. Wide-open Havana, nonchalantly bent on pleasure despite a running revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, offered visitors the biggest hotel built there since 1930. Jamaica also welcomed tourists to a new hotel, the island's biggest...
...Cuba's eastern Sierra Maestra range, along trails they know well, Rebel Fidel Castro, 31, and his band of 600 guerrilla fighters this week mark an anniversary. It is one year since Castro landed 81 seasick adventurers from Mexico in an invasion that drew only derision from President Fulgencio Batista, 56. The dictator is no longer derisive. Last week, in Colon Cemetery in Havana, he dropped his broad face in his hands and wept as a guard of honor buried Colonel Fermin Cowley, 47, one of his top commanders, who was gunned down by a carload of Castro...