Word: fulgencio
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...spite of the ad's success, further publication was hastily suspended. Reason: Jarman-in-a-beard was a dead ringer for Fidel Castro, the tenacious rebel who burrowed into eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains eleven months ago and has since then been plaguing Cuban Strongman Fulgencio Batista with guerrilla warfare...
...Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, a chubby man of 56, last week commemorated the day 24 years ago when, as a lowly army sergeant, he threw out a bumbling government and began his long career as off-and-on President and strongman of Cuba. But even as he pep-talked loyal troops at Camp Columbia, outside Havana. Batista warily shuffled guards at all military installations, held Havana cops on the alert in their barracks. Rumors were flying that the bearded young rebel, Fidel Castro, holed up in the Sierra Maestra, planned to celebrate Batista's 24th anniversary with an uprising...
Earl E. T. Smith, new Ambassador to Cuba, who infuriated Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista by putting out a statement criticizing police mistreatment of Cuban women demonstrators. Said Dulles: "I want to say that it is a statement which, perhaps, from a purely technical point of view, may not have been perfectly correct. But it was a very human statement. I'm glad that we have some, in fact I hope many, ambassadors who are not mere automatic machines but who do have sentiments of humanity which they sometimes express without regard, perhaps, to the diplomatic niceties...
Public Works. Prosperity is a key weapon in President Fulgencio Batista's struggle to remain in office. When the strongman moved into the presidential palace in 1952, he inherited an economy weakened by a huge sugar surplus that was depressing world prices. Batista slapped on acreage quotas, gradually unloaded the excess, even shipping sugar to the U.S.S.R. Prices started a gradual climb, now stand 30% higher than in 1953. He imposed greater discipline on the country's labor unions, granted wide tax and tariff concessions to new industry. In a calculated gamble, he began spending part...
...style city hall of Santiago de Cuba one morning last week, 200 well-dressed women rhythmically chanted: "Freedom! Freedom!" Then, as U.S. Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith listened from an office where he was getting the keys to the city, the cry changed to screams for help. Outside, Dictator Fulgencio Batista's police rushed the demonstrators, twisted arms, carted many off to jail. A fire truck was moved up, began pumping streams of water at the women, supporters of Rebel Fidel Castro's revolutionaries holed up in the nearby Sierra Maestra...