Word: socarr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat of Miami Beach, where he lives. He is also trying to beat what the U.S. State Department calls "very good" chances of deporting him-and he has talented help. His attorney is Miamian David W. Walters, who performed a similar service for Cuban ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás. Grinned Walters last week: "Prio stayed seven years and went back to Cuba voluntarily before we had exhausted anywhere near all the possibilities...
Castro went to Mexico to recruit men and money. One summer evening in 1956, he stole across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President...
...became President. After four years Batista allowed his hand-picked successor to be defeated in Cuba's first honest election and retired to Daytona Beach to enjoy his graft. The administrations of Ramón Grau San Martin. (1944-48) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1948-52) respected civil liberties but not the treasury. Prío amassed millions by the time he fled Batista's coup...
Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, is the President who lost his job in Batista's 1952 coup, went into U.S. exile and spent a graft-gained fortune toward Batista's overthrow. Hated by many of the rebels, Prío is back in his $1,000,000 mansion near Havana and counting on a voice in the government...
Under the succeeding regimes of the constitutionally elected Presidents Ramón Grau San Martin and Carlos Prio Socarrás, rival gangs polished off some 100 political victims. Both the Grau and Prio regimes milked the nation of millions in graft. After Batista came back, he rammed through a one-candidate election in 1954 and his administration set new records for corruption. The middle-class opposition groups began forming...