Fulgencio Batista: from revolutionary to strongman; Criticizing Batista could be dangerous business. Bohemia published this political cartoon by an anonymous artist on August 11, …

Col. Cosme de la Torriente offers the dove of peace to Batista and gets rejected for being a sycophant. Bohemia, July 20, 1952.

Batista's Golden Telephone is now in Havana's Museum of the Revolution as a symbol of Batista era corruption.

This cartoon depicts an agitated President Machado jumping up and down holding his left foot. On the bottom of the shoe is inscribed “Mediation Shoe Co.” The yelping Machado shouts about …

Feb 18, 2025 · During the eight years that he was out of power in Cuba, there was a resurgence of corruption on a grand scale, as well as a virtual breakdown of public services. His return to …

But in his second term his personality seems to have done a 180-degree turn as he became rapidly corrupt. What happened to him to make him change? Did he get a blow to the head? …

The Architect of the Cuban State: Fulgencio Batista and Populism in Cuba, 1937-1940 Journal of Latin American Studies (May, 2000), pp. 435-459. ARTICLES: Batista Is Accused of Having …

Yet, Batista’s statist and corporatist policies, instead of ushering in a political Pax Cubana, ultimately helped stoke the flames of popular discontent. First, Batista laid his Three-Year Plan …

May 18, 2017 · Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar was twice the President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to 1959. The first time he was elected while on the second occasion he …

Mar 10, 2021 · His illegal administration and Batista’s failure to achieve popularity eroded his policies. Political loyalties were often the result of intimidation or expediency and for that …