Word: zaldivar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictator. Franklin Roosevelt five years ago sent aristocratic Ambassador Sumner Welles to pluck Cuba from under the heel of bloody President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado. That chunky brown soldier, Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, organized a revolt against Ambassador Welles's dummy President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, made himself Cuba's army chief and proceeded to set up and knock down presidents of his own in a way that has made Dictator Machado look almost constitutional...
These stirrings gave Havana a high political fever, with rumors of new coalitions circulating hourly. About all that any Cuban politician knew surely was that, let coalitions form where they might, for the moment the undisputed boss of Cuba was husky, brown Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar...