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Though Batista Rose to Power in Cuba, His Reign Was Littered with Corruption and Dishonesty
Title: Though Batista Rose to Power in Cuba, His Reign Was Littered with Corruption and Dishonesty
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
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Though Batista Rose to Power in Cuba, His Reign Was Littered with Corruption and Dishonesty
Fulgencio Batista Zaldivar was born in Cuba’s Oriente Province in 1902 (Sierra 1). In 1921 he joined the army as a private, and in 1932 he became a military tribunal stenographer with the rank of sergeant (Sierra 1). His involvement in the Cuban military foreshadowed his army-dependant rule. He took over the country with the help of gangsters, guns, and violence. Though Batista rose to power in Cuba, his reign was littered with corruption and dishonesty.
On September 4, 1933, Batista
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Cuba: From Columbus to Castro. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1974.
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