Word: fulgencio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Fulgencio Batista last week lifted press censorship and restored constitutional guarantees that were suspended after the crushing of last July's bloody Santiago revolt. The news was welcome in Cuba, and might have been greeted even more enthusiastically if Batista had not put through a tough "Law of Public Order" during the state of emergency (TIME, Aug. 17). That law remains on the books, and if its penalties for any Cuban who "spreads, publishes, has published or transmits false rumors . . . against the nation's dignity [and] the credit of the nation or the government" are rigorously applied...
When a nervous regime slaps a rigid censorship on the press, as Fulgencio Batista's government did after July's unsuccessful revolt (TIME, Aug. 10), the normal flow of news slackens and nightmare rumors fly ten times faster. One day last month Batista's propaganda ministry announced cryptically that Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 73, Archbishop of Havana and Roman Catholic primate of Cuba, had been injured in a fall in his rooms. That was news that Havana's papers and radio stations would normally have reported in detail, but under censorship they gave only the bare bones...
President Fulgencio Batista was a worried strongman last week. While he was awarding regatta prizes at Varadero Beach, a band of less than 200 uniformed men attacked the army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Local troops drove off the rebels, pursued them into the hills and captured a cache of weapons and uniforms near Siboney. As the mop-up continued, casualties mounted to 82 dead and 36 wounded; it was Latin America's bloodiest revolt since last year's uprising in Bolivia (TIME. April...
...months after he had seized power last spring, Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista magnanimously proclaimed that "free and fair elections" for the presidency would be held in November 1953. Last week the strong man changed his mind. His government announced that no elections will be held till June 1954, when a new congress will be chosen. The Congressmen will then decide when Cubans may vote on the presidency...
Born. To General Fulgencio Batista, 52, Cuba's strongman President, and Second Wife Marta Fernández de Batista, 30 : his seventh child, fifth son, her fourth child, fourth son; in Havana. Name: Fulgencio José. Weight...