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...Cuba will elect a new President, a Vice President, 36 Senators, 162 members of the House of Representatives, six provincial governors and more than 150 mayors. Cuba has a dozen political parties, roughly herded into one of two coalition groups: the Government coalition, whose candidate for President is Colonel Fulgencio Batista, and the opposition front, which nominated Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, onetime (1933-34) President and head of the "Revolutionary Party." Last week Dr. Grau got mad and withdrew...
...Cuba's Chief of Army Staff, Fulgencio Batista, resigned...
...busy forenoon for Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's Chief of Army Staff. At 8 a.m. he and his staff arrived at La Punta, Cuba's Naval headquarters outside Havana, and ate breakfast with Naval Chief of Staff Colonel Angel Gonzalez. After numerous goodbys, Colonel Batista moved on, first to the island's police headquarters and next to Camp Columbia, where he repeated the leavetaking. The handsome, 38-year-old Army chief distributed his last promotions, reviewed police. Army and Naval detachments, then called up Lieut.-Colonel Jose Pedraza and put his own insignia on Pedraza...
Swart, nimble little Colonel Fulgencio Batista, "Cuban Strong Man" and most likable of Caribbean dictators, has been fixing himself up during the past year with a brand-new reputation as a Liberal which he was ready last week to test at the polls. Originally Colonel Batista was suspected of Fascist leanings. Because of this, last year some 70% of the electorate stayed home on voting day to boycott Batista (TIME, March...
Mexico City last week gave Colonel Fulgencio Batista the largest, noisiest and most colorful reception that has been given any foreign visitor since Lindbergh. Cuba's barrel-chested little "strong man" had climbed up to the city's mile-high plateau in a special train provided by the President for a ten day visit during which he will exchange neighborhood gossip with Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, talk shop with Mexico's military chiefs. Conscious that the eyes of Washington were upon him to be sure he did not show too much interest in radical Mexico...