Fulgencio Batista
he first revolution in Cuba was bloody. A fiery rebel named Fidel Castro declared war on Fulgencio Batista, energizing the working class to rise up against Batista’s corrupt kingdom.
Cuba would shed the emperor’s old clothes, only to find another...
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