Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1950s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.