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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...
...army-rebel clash followed a new Oriente coast invasion by 150 supporters of ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás bent on horning into the revolution begun by Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro more than five months ago. Pursuing the invaders, the army caught them at the edge of the rugged Sierra del Cristal, killed 16. Castro chose that moment for a double show of force. From his sanctuary in the high Sierra Maestra his 100-odd men swooped down on the army garrison of the tiny Oriente town of Uvero, killing eleven of Batista's soldiers and wounding...
CARLOS PRÍO SOCARR...
Carlos Prío Socarrás, 50, Cuba's President until his overthrow last year in a military coup, was arrested in Miami last week by a U.S. marshal. The charge: conspiring to smuggle arms out of the U.S. in violation of the 1939 neutrality act. Hotly protesting his innocence, Prío was freed on $50,000 bail to appear this week in a U.S. district court in Manhattan...