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...Dictator Fulgencio Batista is a shrewd politician who knows when to give an inch to save the ruler. For two months he blocked a congressional move to grant amnesty to political prisoners and exiles, even though the mood of the country was clearly in favor of it. Last week Batista gave in gracefully, told his majorities in Congress to push through a sweeping amnesty bill...
Diplomats from 51 nations gathered in the flower-bedecked Hall of Mirrors ia Havana's Presidential Palace last week to see General Fulgencio Batista sworn in as President of Cuba. It was the cheerful strongman's third inauguration as Cuba's chief of state. He had made himself President for the first time in 1940, after running the country for seven years as a military dictator. Out of power from 1944 to 1952, he then took over again in a military coup, adopted the title of Provisional President. Last year, eager to drop the "provisional...
Presidents & Peddlers. In each country he visited, Nixon called upon the chief of state-President-elect Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in Mexico and Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala-to present a silver-framed picture of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower and to chat about affairs of state. But Nixon also shook hands with and talked to the common people he met at every turn-leather-palmed cane-field workers, ragged fruit peddlers, schoolkids, mothers with babes in arms. Unaccustomed to such free-and-easy mingling, the Latin government officials who escorted the Vice President around often seemed...
...morning after Cuba's presidential election last week, Fulgencio Batista told his followers: "From the results so far, it appears that I am the President-elect." It was a modest enough statement for a dictator who controlled the electoral machinery and whose only competitor in the race, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, had withdrawn before the election (TIME...
After showing his countrymen the unusual spectacle of a dictator earnestly running for President, Cuba's Strongman Fulgencio Batista suddenly found himself running all alone this week. In a dramatic announcement only 36 hours before the polls were to open, his only opponent, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, withdrew from the race. Batista smilingly announced that the elections (for Congress, governorships and local offices as well as for the presidency) would go off as scheduled. But Grau's walkout had spoiled the strongman's plan. Batista's main purpose in scheduling elections...