Word: fulgencio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government suspended all criminal courts, regarded as a symbol of the fallen dictatorship of President Fulgencio Batista, and was reported preparing a decree abolishing all political parties...
...Castro's radio blared victory, reported forces sweeping through town after town in Oriente and Las Villas provinces, routing small garrisons, setting up rebels as "civil authorities." The excited trumpeting was probably overdone. But there was little question that the rebels were on the move, or that Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army was retreating to defensive ground in Cuba's big cities...
HAVANA, Jan. 4--Rebel leader Fidel Castro tonight called off the general strike that has paralyzed Cuba since his bearded rebels took over from Fulgencio Batista's dicatorship...
Bundy and Fulgencio Batista after months of planning establish a beachhead in Cuba. An unfortunate geographical error lands their troops just north of the Havana Hilton. A jubilant mob welcomes them as the first tourists to arrive in Cuba since January. July 26, the anniversary of the Castro movement, Bundy is appointed Provisional President. He announces the appointment of Henry A. Kissinger as Defense Minister. The Pope announces the appointment of 23 new Cardinals. "It's a nice round number," he comments...
...dominates a third of the island's land area (see map). His strength in guerrillas and arms is rising, but exactly how much is a secret veiled by the downed wires and cut roads that go into the wild country he lurks in. Dictator Fulgencio Batista keeps a hold on Havana, where a fifth of all Cubans live, and all other sizable cities, and still controls the labor unions, most of the press, an army estimated at 46,000, an air force that includes bombers and pursuit planes. But he cannot keep order, and apparently lacks the capacity...