General Batista returns to power in Cuba: March 10th, 1952. (Months Past).(Brief Article)

History Today | March 1, 2002 | Copyright

FULGENCIO BATISTA y Zaldivar, an exceptionally competent administrator, a shrewd judge of character and a man of engaging personal charm, was a mulatto from a poor Cuban farming family. He joined the army as a shorthand typist in 1921, rose to the rank of sergeant and at the age of thirty-two took a leading part in the `sergeants' revolt' of 1933, which deposed the president and installed a new regime under a middle-class academic, Ramon Grau San Martin. Batista was made chief of staff. He soon removed Grau and, with the support of the army and the approval of the United ...

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