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New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... Havana was “the Las Vegas of the Caribbean,” in the Castro revolution that overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista and in the battle that continues today against Mr. Castro from Miami and other places of exile. Teddy Roosevelt goes charging through these pages. Meyer Lansky casts a shadow as Batista’s “gambling adviser.” drops by to sing a song or two. The great Puerto Rican...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
... this year. Castro came to power as a result of the Cuban revolution that overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista, and shortly thereafter became Prime Minister of Cuba. Although the US has tried hard to get rid of him, Castro outlasted no fewer than nine American presidents since he took power.
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Arnade also reportedly drank coffee with another Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro, at a Tampa diner in 1955. Arnade was teaching a class at the University of Tampa at the time and Castro was trying to raise money from Tampa's Cuban community for his fight against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Arnade later told friends he talked with Castro about "morals and manners."
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Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
When I was a kid, Cuban radio had a very popular daily program. It was called ‘ The Three Villalobos ’. The highly successful program was a huge contrast to what was going on in the political scene in the country during the 1950’s. U.S. puppet Fulgencio Batista ruled the island with an iron fist. Political opponents would be often found dead and mutilated in the streets of the Caribbean...
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
... not played here since the summer of 1947. That was almost 12 years before longtime Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista fled the island and Fidel Castro proclaimed his revolution, later instituting socialist rule that remains in place to this day. In 1962, the U.S. imposed a travel and trade embargo that, among other things, prevents Americans from legally visiting a country situated just...
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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... flavor to that produced in Cuba could be made elsewhere.The Bacardis opposed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and supported Fidel Castro, even granting some workers leave to join his rebel forces. Vilma Espin, late wife of Cuban President Raul Castro, was the daughter of a Bacardi accountant and one Bacardi family member even knitted caps and stockings for Castro rebels fighting Batista's...
