Word: fulgencio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old minor bureaucrat in Cuba's Ministry of Communications when the police arrested him in December 1960. The charge: "counterrevolutionary activity" because he had publicly criticized Fidel Castro's increasing dependence on the Soviet Union. Although he had supported Castro's 1959 overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Valladares was, after a two-hour trial, sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. During his confinement, Valladares began to record images and thoughts on the torn-off margins of Castro's official newspaper, Granma. Some of these fragments, which were smuggled out of prison in dirty laundry...
DIED. Raúl Roa García, 75, Foreign Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, whose acerbic voice enunciated Fidel Castro's scathing views of U.S. policies toward his country; in Havana. A supporter of Fulgencio Batista until they had a falling-out, Roa was named by Castro after he ousted the dictator. Despite Roa's anti-Yanqui stance, he negotiated an agreement with the U.S. in 1965 that allowed an airlift of Cuban emigrants and another in 1973 providing for Cuban punishment of airplane hijackers...
Hope Somoza, the widow of the Nicaraguan President, lives in Key Biscayne. Nicole Duvalier, who opposes her brother Baby Doc, owns a sumptuous home in southwest Miami. The son of the late Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, works as a model in Fort Lauderdale. A retired leader of the Tonton Macoute, the Haitian secret police, lives in Miami. Says one leading political exile, alive...
...Carlos, the patriarch of the family, grew up in Cuba and, as a professor of history at the University of Havana, helped write his country's 1940 constitution. Nearly two decades later he found himself opposing both the corrupt regime of President Fulgencio Batista and the revolution headed by a former student of his named Fidel Castro. After Castro gained power on New Year's Day 1959, Don Carlos, his wife and stepdaughter fled the country and settled in Washington. Uva's boyfriend Jorge left Cuba to join Uva in 1961. That same year, the family moved...
...know, I think I am the only Cuban in exile who proclaims he would like to rule his country one day," says Jorge Batista, 38, son of the island's late dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who was ousted by Castro in 1959. Jorge may be excused for being a little out of touch with political realities; he has lived mostly in Europe for the past 20 years. Now, from his Fort Lauderdale condo, he believes he "can feel the political heartbeating of my compatriots." But Jorge's counterrevolutionary passions are tempered by practicality. He works as a runway model...