The Cuban Revolution was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup
Fidel Castro and his men in the Sierra Maestra, 1956
Fulgencio Batista in military uniform in 1952, the year of his coup to gain power
Fidel Castro under arrest after the July 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba
Student protests in Havana, 1956
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his resignation in 1959, when he was overthrown in th
Cuban Revolution
…The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy…
The Pentarchy of 1933 was a five-man presidency of Cuba, including José M. Irisari, Porfirio Franca, Guillermo Portela, Ramón Grau, and Sergio Carbó. Batista (on the far right) controlled the armed forces.
Batista (left) with his first wife Elisa Godinez-Gómez on a 1938 visit to Washington, D.C., greeting the Cuban ambassador, Pedro Fraga
Slum (bohio) dwellings in Havana, Cuba, in 1954, just outside Havana baseball stadium. In the background is advertising for a nearby casino.