On January 01, 1959, facing a popular revolution spearheaded by Fidel Castro's July 26th Movement, Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista and a number of his supporters fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic..Fulgencio Batista died in Spain at age 72 on August 6, 1973.
The U.S. government had supported Batista, a former soldier and Cuban dictator from 1933 to 1944, who seized power for a second time in a 1952 coup.
Fidel Castro and a group of followers, including the South American revolutionary Che Guevara(1928-1967)landed in Cuba to unseat the dictator in December 1956, the U.S. continued to back Batista.
Cuban support for Castro's revolution grew due to his charisma and nationalistic rhetoric and also because of increasingly rampant corruption, greed, brutality and inefficiency within the Batista government.
U.S.slowly withdraw its support for Batista and begin a search in Cuba for an alternative to both the dictator and Castro but that search failed.
On January 1, 1959, Batista and a number of his supporters fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic. Tens of thousands of Cubans (and thousands of Cuban Americans in the U.S.) celebrated the end of the dictator's regime. Castro's supporters moved quickly to establish their power. Judge Manuel Urrutia was named as provisional president. Castro and his band of guerrilla fighters triumphantly entered Havana on January 7
The U.S. government had supported Batista, a former soldier and Cuban dictator from 1933 to 1944, who seized power for a second time in a 1952 coup.
Fidel Castro and a group of followers, including the South American revolutionary Che Guevara(1928-1967)landed in Cuba to unseat the dictator in December 1956, the U.S. continued to back Batista.
Cuban support for Castro's revolution grew due to his charisma and nationalistic rhetoric and also because of increasingly rampant corruption, greed, brutality and inefficiency within the Batista government.
U.S.slowly withdraw its support for Batista and begin a search in Cuba for an alternative to both the dictator and Castro but that search failed.
On January 1, 1959, Batista and a number of his supporters fled Cuba for the Dominican Republic. Tens of thousands of Cubans (and thousands of Cuban Americans in the U.S.) celebrated the end of the dictator's regime. Castro's supporters moved quickly to establish their power. Judge Manuel Urrutia was named as provisional president. Castro and his band of guerrilla fighters triumphantly entered Havana on January 7
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