In 1959, Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic.

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The other siblings too joined his cause, with Juanita coming the U.S. to raise money for the fight against the dictator, Fulgencio Batista.

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Fulgencio Batista, the dictator deposed by Castro who, by the way, was the only person of color to be president of Cuba, never boasted of anything resembling it.

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The jungly hillsides provided the hideout for Che Guevara before his Dec. 31, 1958 attack that drove General Fulgencio Batista from Cuba and unofficially inaugurated the reign of Fidel Castro.

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