Batista's Coup in Cuba

Date: March 10, 1952 • Location: Topes de Collantes, Cuba

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1952.

Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, from 1952 to 1954 and again from 1955 to his resignation in 1959, when he was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution. From 1934 till 1940 he was the de facto leader of Cuba.