Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outsider got a look at the plans, they must have read like an outline for a religious pageant. Each reference to an archbishop or a priest signified an individual; each "ceremony" a place to be captured. At the final night meeting, in a house not far from Havana's all-important Camp Columbia army base, the plotters swore an oath of secrecy. Batista told the conspirators to check their watches against Radio Reloj, the Havana radio station that ticks off time signals day & night. The revolution would start at exactly 2:43 a.m. on March...
...Picked officers took downtown Havana's Cabana fortress. Others seized naval and air centers. From these bases they took control of police stations, communication centers, the labor palace. The rest of the island-there were only two regiments outside Havana-fell soon afterward. The young officers crowded round Batista at his table in Columbia and crowed: "Fulge, we're in!" Prío took refuge at the Mexican embassy. "We are the law," proclaimed Batista, sending tanks and armored cars through the streets of Havana...
...Latin American dictator politics: he ran off a free and fair election. His man was soundly beaten. This was annoying, but there was nothing to do but graciously turn the presidency over to the winner, his old colleague Grau San Martin, and get out. Besides, staying in Havana at the time would have been asking for a Tommy-gun clip in the back...
...Florida and applied himself to setting his personal affairs in order, notably arranging to divorce his first wife, Elise, and marry again. Money was no problem. Eleven years of managing payrolls, contracts, the national lottery, sugar quotas and other traditional means of political enrichment had made him enormously wealthy. Havana insiders estimate his fortune at $50 million, and credit him with one of the handsomest gestures ever made by an active, vigorous man who wanted a younger and prettier mate: he reportedly gave Elise a twelve-story apartment house, other valuable property and $8,000,000 in cash...
Soon afterward, Batista married his present wife, Marta Fernández. The President had literally run into her with his car a few years earlier while she was riding a bicycle down Fifth Avenue in Havana's swank Miramar district. She has borne Batista three children. He also had three children by his first wife...