Fulgencio Batista

General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the de facto leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and the country's de jure President from 1940 to 1944 and again, after a coup, from 1952 to 1959.

Exile

Batista would never return to Cuba, moving to permanent exile in Portugal and Spain and dying in Guadalmina,Spain in 1973.

Related Topics:
Exile - Portugal - Spain - Guadalmina - 1973

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Batista is the author of Cuba Betrayed and The Growth and Decline of the Cuban Republic.

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