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Fulgencio Batista was a Cuban military leader who served as president during the 1940s and then ruled as a dictator in the 1950s until his overthrow in 1959. He matters because his authoritarian regime and the conditions he created were central factors leading to the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro's rise to power, which shaped Caribbean and Cold War history.

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