- Fulgencio Batista effectively gained political control for himself after the Revolt of Sergeants of 1933 overthrew the authoritarian rule of Gerardo Machado.
- Batista initially rose to power as part of the 1933 Revolt of the Sergeants, which overthrew the provisional government of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada.
- Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; 16 January 1901 — 6 August 1973) was a far-right Cuban politician...
- Batista was born in Banes, Cuba in 1901 and considered mulatto (mixed African and Spanish blood).
- When it was discovered that no birth certificate existed for a "Fulgencio Batista", he had to postpone his candidacy registration and pay 15,000 pesos to the local...
- Fulgencio Batista was a Cuban politician best known for being both a dictator and President of Cuba.
- This is the army Fulgencio was the leader of. His father did not want to register him as a Batista of Cuba.
- Fulgencio Batista ruled Cuba, sometimes formally and sometimes by proxy, for most of the 25 years before Fidel Castro's rise to power at the end of 1958.
- Fulgencio Batista was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944...
- The product of plantation-worker parents, Fulgencio Batista was born in Cuba's rural Oriente Province in 1902.