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{{Villain_Infobox | {{Villain_Infobox | ||
|Image = Fulgencio | |name = Evil-doer | ||
|Image =Fulgencio Batista.jpg | |||
|fullname = Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar | |fullname = Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar | ||
|alias = Rubén Zaldívar | |alias = Rubén Zaldívar | ||
|origin = Banes, Cuba | |origin = Banes, Cuba | ||
|occupation = President of Cuba (1940 - 1944, 1952 - 1959) | |occupation = President of Cuba (1940 - 1944, 1952 - 1959) | ||
|goals = Keep Cuba under his control (failed)<br>Eradicate communism in Cuba (failed) | |goals = Overthrow Carlos Prio Soccaras (succeeded)<br>Keep Cuba under his control (failed)<br>Eradicate communism in Cuba (failed) | ||
|crimes = | |crimes = [[Mass murder]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>Oppression<br>[[Illegal Drug Trade|Drug trafficking]] | ||
|type of villain = Military Tyrant | |type of villain = Military Tyrant | ||
}}'''Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar''' (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and as its U.S.-backed military dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution. | }}'''Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar''' (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and as its U.S.-backed military dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Batista was born in the town of Veguita, located in the municipality of Banes, province of Holguín, Cuba, in 1901, to Belisario Batista Palermo and Carmela Zaldívar González, who had fought in the Cuban War of Independence. He was of Spanish, African, Taíno and Chinese descent. | Batista was born in the town of Veguita, located in the municipality of Banes, province of Holguín, Cuba, in 1901, to Belisario Batista Palermo and Carmela Zaldívar González, who had fought in the Cuban War of Independence. He was of Spanish, African, Taíno and Chinese descent. | ||
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Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics, for two years (December 1956 – December 1958) Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista's government, which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command of [[Che Guevara]] at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. Batista immediately fled the island with an amassed personal fortune to the Dominican Republic, where strongman and previous military ally [[Rafael Trujillo]] held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s Portugal, where he first lived on the island of Madeira and then in Estoril, outside Lisbon. He was involved in business activities in Spain and was staying there in Guadalmina near Marbella at the time of his death from a heart attack on August 6, 1973. | Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics, for two years (December 1956 – December 1958) Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista's government, which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command of [[Che Guevara]] at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. Batista immediately fled the island with an amassed personal fortune to the Dominican Republic, where strongman and previous military ally [[Rafael Trujillo]] held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s Portugal, where he first lived on the island of Madeira and then in Estoril, outside Lisbon. He was involved in business activities in Spain and was staying there in Guadalmina near Marbella at the time of his death from a heart attack on August 6, 1973. | ||
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