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Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

Historical image related to Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. from April 5, 1956

Cuban Revolution

1955–58 armed rebellion against the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro

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 d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and…
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Fidel Castro

Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as…
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President of Cuba

Head of state of Cuba

The president of Cuba, officially the president of the Republic of Cuba, is the head of state of Cuba. The office in its current form was established under the Constitution of 2019. The President is the second-highest office in Cuba and the highest state office. Miguel…
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Fulgencio Batista

Cuban politician (1901–1973)

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from…
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