Fulgencio Batista - Cuba’s Mafia Backed Dictator Documentary 

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It's refreshing to see that the narrator made an effort to get the names right, in Spanish. Very well done!

People often talk about how bad Castro was, and pretend like Cuba was some sort or paradise before him. My great-grandfather fled Cuba to Mexico because of Batista.

Thank you, once again, for presenting a fair, honest, accurate, and factual biography on a most controversial political figure. 👍

As someone born in Mariano Havana Cuba. I really appreciate this My family immigrated to the US early in my childhood and I never got a good understanding of Cuban history. They always just made him out to be another dictator. Which they weren't that far off but still contacts matters and I really like this video thank you.

This is exactly what fueled the Las Vegas that we have come to know and love to this very day.. Every American should watch this, this is history that you won't necessarily get the chance to learn in high school.

If Batista had addressed the issues of poverty, health care, illiteracy and kept his hands out of the public coffers, Castro never could have come to power. It must be recognized that what became a major impetus when the US invasion at the Bay of Pigs was attempted, was the fact that the Castro government made a special attempt at improving the three above items mentioned, which gave those people, who were among the poorest in Cuba, a great incentive to battle any invaders of their country. They preferred to keep what they had gained under Castro rather than return to some feudal existence.

Your content is always topnotch! Thanks for this!

Wow, I never knew this about Batista. I was always brought up to believe he was a member of the Spanish elite, friend of the American bourgeosie. But learning now that he was part black African, part native American, part Chinese and only 1/4 white Spaniard... quite a new discovery of Cuban history, to me

Excellent presentation. When asked , at the end of it, what I thought of Batista, I thought of Shakespeare’s Macbeth : the great hero in Act One, but tempted to take a short cut to power , in Act 2.

Power tends to corrupt,. Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

Informative ,fairly biography introduced the modern history of Cuba 🇨🇺 through this great biography of Batista....thanks (the people profile) channel

I would LOVE to see you make a people profile on Rafael Trujillo (Famed former dictator of the Dominican Republic)...

Most historians describe Batista as a cruel dictator. This clip brings in many details which are as relevant to the acceptance of Castro as the great leader. Yet Cuba was corrupt for decades with the Castro revolution just another step in the long saga of Cuban sad tragedy. Good story telling.

That was an excellent summary of this critical period of Cuban history.

Problem with Batista: He was not a Francisco Franco - a dictator with long range future plans. Franco carefully avoided joining the Axis in World War 2, then took advantage of the Cold War to get US investment and bases. He set the groundwork for Spain to become a constitutional monarchy after his death. Batista did not practice similar long term planning, so ended up like Ferdinand Marcos Sr. of the Phillipines - in exile though rich.👎

A very good history of events. I do wish you would have mentioned that the first thing Fidel Castro did after taking power was to ask the US government for help. On refusal from the US , he was forced to go to the Soviet Union.

Another great informative post. Thank you.

There are two biographies about Batista but,they never cover the years between 1952 to his death in 1973.

I have to admire the effort going into the pronunciations. Overall, not bad.

I grew up with a girl in Miami Beach who was from Cuba. Back in the 1950's on. She n her parents escaped and came to Florida. Good people. We became friends and her mother would only speak Spanish to me, so I'd learn. My best memories are of that time. My mom spoke of Batista. All those years ago. I'd give anything to be able to capture that time again, but I'm a senior and have lost touch with the precious family I once knew. Thank you 💛 for this excellent documentary about the history of Cuba. I will keep and cherish it. ❤

Well produced and informative as always. Thanks.

A very interesting video, thank you for increasing my knowledge.

Enjoyed the doc on Batista. I remember a large book about him published in the late 1940’s. It had shown some of those reforms.

My only criticism about this video is that they say after taking control of Cuba, Castro "immediately" aligned his administration with the USSR. This did eventually happen but the timing is inaccurate. It took approx. one year for them to decide to align with the USSR. Cuba made overtures to the USA first but was outright rejected. Our reaction toward his takeover helped push him toward the Soviets. Also, Che Guevara was the rabid Marxist, not Fidel-at least not at the beginning.

excellently done!

Excellent factual documentary condensing history in easily digestible form. Thank you! ☺️

Should'uh kept him in power .Look at Cuba today 2023, a crumbling Mess..Still! Smh

Interesting, he was complex. I learned a lot of facts I wasn't aware of. Great documentary keep up the good work. I see him in a new light, thanx.

People in Cuba had it a lot better with a Mafia-backed dictator than they did with a Communist-backed dictator. Under Batista people were moving to Cuba, under Castro people were dying to leave Cuba. The mob wanted gambling and prostitution, which is the same thing the mob wanted in Vegas. They didn't get the prostitution in Vegas, at least not legally but they had their hooks in the gambling.

Batista was a horror show yet after having visited Cuba a dozen times during the Castro regime and thereafter, the people have suffered miserably

Excelente documentary. A poor man that became Sargent, President and dictator is uniquely shocking! But what We can from this is that power corrupts good intentions. 70 years and Cubans still living in misery and lack of freedoms.

Wow! Very thorough and revealing of one who I didn't know much of. He turns out to have been a very dirty and corrupt leader. It also seems that the Cuban people have always suffered from repressive and or corrupt leaders. Poverty has been the lot of the masses from inception to now. It would be great to see some favorable changes.

This is an excellent documentary on a political figure that has affected millions of lives.

This is a more nuanced take on modern Cuban history. Thank you for highlighting Batista’s mixed-race background. By contrast, the Castro brothers were white (sons of Spanish immigrants). The reign of terror that the Castros and sidekick Che Guevara unleashed after 1959 makes Batista look like a choirboy.

Another example of how the US Department of State is so inept and the workers and staff of the State Department are stupid. The State Department must be reformed and the Ivy League establishment within should be terminated.

Absolutely fantastic documentary. I teach US foreign policy, and this will greatly enrich my teaching.

Thank you. Always good to learn something new.

Este hombre F Batista comparado con Castro y sus 60 años de sangrienta dictadura…… es un angelito , nuestra economía , desarrollo, auto sostén , nuestra libre empresa, nivel de educación etc etc hablan por sí solas . Pobre Cuba , muchos años necesitará para superar la ruina y miseria en la que mal vive no por Batista sino por los Castros . Lo muy malo que hizo Batista fue perdonarle la vida a Castro cuando atacó al hospital del Moncada , ya era un asesino desde joven hasta su muerte

We want to be free and have democracy and food and so many things than Cuba needs even in 2023 Cuba is worse than in 1959

Nice documentation, Brilliant approach, Excellent Presentation ❤

My friend survived the farm work programs that Castro put in place, even though his Father was a Doctor. My friend, who was 12 at the time, talked back to the military official at the farm. He was placed in a ground pit overnight with a locked cage top. He said snakes & bugs came into the pit, which was flooded with water chest high. Can you imagine such torture on a child? They left Cuba on a boat ASAP.

Thank you for this video which feel my gap of the Batista reign

Cuba’s history is quite tragic, from Batista to Castro. Damn

From October 24, 1492 until today, Cuba has only known conquerors, colonialists and dictators.

Il n'empêche que les Cubains étaient plus heureux sous Bautista que sous les Castro, qui ont fait de leur île prospère un pays du Tiers-Monde.

I appreciate this. I too never understood why batista was bad. I just knew my dad was a captain in the Cuban army trying to overthrow him. The last thing he imagined was that overthrowing Batista would give them Castro.

In my life I have observed that systemic corruption may be enmeshed with functionality. A Machiavellian mindset doesn’t make anything better but it probably could avoid making things worse. Hard thing is to accept the greed and arrogance of fat cats living high on the hog while others are stuck in a rut of deprivation as the fruits of their labors are siphoned off.

His bad deeds far outweiged his good deeds.

I think Batista needed to be ousted by the Cuban people in the 1950s. That he was kept in power by the US, specifically the Dulles brothers, with their rabid "anti-communist" cold war myopia, made the victory of Castro, or someone very like him, only more likely. The US, by then imposing a cruel, punishing *and unnecessary* embargo has ensured that the average Cuban is in only slightly better circumstances than they were before 1959. This has been the story, unfortunately, of US foreign policy almost everywhere in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is far past the time for that unnecessary embargo to be lifted. And for the US to climb down from its support for autocrats in the interests of humanity.

THE AMERICAN'S PUT HIM THERE !!! CASTRO LET HIM GET AWAY WITH 3 PLANES FULL OF ART AND VALUEBALS WHILE HE COULD HAVE COURT HIM AT THE AIRPORT !!!!! WHY ?????

Oh, my gosh! I have been searching for years for a fair documentary about Batista and here I got it. Very informative! I’m Fidel’s supporter and have been wanting to understand Cuban’s life before Fidel

Democracy for Cuba!!!!!!!

yah bet you many cubans regretted overthrowing batista. since Castro was much worse.

Well as the saying goes careful what you wish for he was a saint compared to the Castros. History speaks for itself, 60+ years of slavery.

Excellent, crammed with information...thank you.

Freedom for Cuba please!!!!!!!

He certainly was somewhat enigmatic to a degree. Just found your interesting channel. New Sub.

If anyone wants to read what President Fulgencio Batista has to say in his own words, one of his books is available in PDF form on the Internet. Just look up "latin american studies the growth and decline of the cuban republic fulgencio batista pdf."

GREAT HISTORY LESSON APPRECIATE THE CONTENT....

My entire extended family fled Cuba in the late 60s. Batista was a brutal dictator but Castro's communism is a totalitarian hellish nightmare.

Thank You For This Video. It was really very Nice & Infotmative. All must watch & appreciate. Thank You. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉💐💐💐🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹.

United Fruit Company. American exploitation.

Any chance you could do Juan Peron?

I feel for the people who had to flee their homes and countries, it's a great crime when such atrocities take place but an even greater crime when the world sits back and does nothing. Peace to all the Innocents who either died or fled with their lives from dictators, corrupt regimes and guided missiles dropped from planes.

As bad as it was, the pictures of Havana in the 50s look better than all the decades before.

For the record, The colonial communities went to Haiti for support of their independence ie: Miranda and Bolivar obtained arms, and munitions from free Haiti in 1806 and the years after. This part was convenientely ommitted.

Excellent biography Thanks for sharing

The computer voice is super annoying. Sounds very real at first but then i zoned out.

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Is it true the USA agreed to never invade Cuba if the Soviet missiles were removed?

Thank you very much! Very educational.

Better than Castro any day of the week

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This is a really good documentary!

Batista was a benevolent dictator and a boy scout when compared to the Castro brothers.

Always comparing between the bad and the worse !! Is there something else?

Cuba never was a paradise,but it was much better before Castro

Castro ran his own mafia. El padrino 🤣

I knew a Cuban business man who told me he had to include the bribe when calculating your price.

PATRIA Y VIDA !!! CUBA LIBERTAD!!!

Batista was not good but the fascist Castro was 100 times worst

The United States will definitely need to experience a lengthy reckoning forr its incessant interference with the domestic political affairs of Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century, which would eventually lead to the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's corrupt régime by Fidel Castro.

One dictator was overthrown in favor of another.

The documentary is thorough and surprisingly accurate in many ways, for instance, it avoids the pitfalls of depicting Batista as the caricature right winged dictator Fidel Castro's propaganda machine has made him out to be. Batista was more complicated than that and as you accurately point out, he was at one time in his life allied to the communist party and was, also, popular and democratically elected during one administration. You, also, point out how progressive the Constitution of 1940 was. This is so refreshing in light of the extreme way Cuba has been depicted by scholars who fall for the lies of the Castro propaganda machinery. However, I think that it is misleading to continue to show videos of present-day Cuba full of dilapidated and derelict buildings. Pre-Castro Cuba for all of its flaws [especially Havana] was quite beautiful and was in no way falling apart as it is today. Havana was for instance was full of broad avenues full of manicured trees, beautiful buildings in splendid condition and it had a vibrant civil society with the largest middle-class per capita in Latin America and smartly dressed people not the bedraggled masses one sees today. I have, also, noticed that at times you splice in videos from other Latin American countries. This is misleading as it does not accurately portray the full contrast of pre-Castro Cuba to the present-day mess it is today, instead it creates confusion by visually blending both periods.

His own coup in 52 fueled the discontent and ultimately a rebellion that brought Cuba to the stone age 😮

That opening scene is not in Cuba... those cars are way to modern and we don't use some of those signs

Thanks for the excellent portrayal of the man about whom I never read or saw anything anywhere. It was just the corrupt, brutal Batista regime that the good and glorious Castro kicked out.

Thanks...impressive details

Cuba was rich n very advanced the peso was worth more than the dollar in the fifties...my family owned sugar plantations n lived a very happy n beautiful life..I myself as a child had a taste of it n can only remember beautiful memories....Batista was corrupt that's true but he made Cuba rich n prosperous....Castro was the illegitemate son of a landowner who went to school w my father...all children of well to do parents went to private schools n my dad told me he was rebellious,arrogant n always a trouble maker...he became a lawyer n spoke English n I suppose because he was illegitimate..a mortal sin in society...became an anarchist n got into trouble ..he eventually got caught n was to be executed but because of his father he was exiled to Mexico ..he came back n started to make revolution...he only succeeded because Batista had become so corrupt anyone was better than him.. He came to power promising democracy n fair GOVERMENT...but he lied to the Cuban people n the rest is history...I went thru this upheaval n saw my family torn apart n exiled to the US....his oppressive monstrous regime was worse than anything Batista did n he destroyed Cuba n made it into a police state w thousands in jail n executions...he destroyed the economy n made Cuba a third world country which it NEVER WAS...I can only hope n pray for Cuba's suffering to be over n to see my country come back from the abyss it is in now...all I pray for..

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Who was worse, Castro or Batista?

We need help because people in Cuba don't have any weapons for fight back, a solution could be the militaries going against the government

I never met Batista. I never met Fidel Castro either. Call me a simpleton if you like, but when I look at pictures of Cuba pre-1959, I see well kept buildings, well dressed people "all around", basically prosperity in general. Today in Cuba. All I see, are buildings either crumbling down or in serious disrepair. People everywhere dressed in what can only be described as "hand-me-downs". Extremely long lines everywhere for even the most basic of necessities. Hospitals lacking even the most basic resources and filthy. Schools which flood even upon the mildest of rainstorms..? The worst of it all? People with no hope for the future or that any significant change will ever come..! Exactly why all the "Massive" migrations from all social classes during the last 60 plus years..! Comment all you want. For or against blah blah blah. Those in power don't live on the rations or have to make insane lines for basic items like most average Cubans. The Cuban people are the ones that suffer and go without daily, not the idiots that comment about how wonderful the revolution has been..!

I'm sure this man was corrupt, but I didn't hear about Cuban exiles until the Castro regime. I'd say that he was a far better dictator than Castro.

EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE LOS 50s HABIA TANTA CORRUPCION COMO EN LA CUBA DE BATISTA Y NADIA DECIA NADA DE ESA CORRUPCION, PERO A BATISTA SI LA PRENSA NORTEAMERICANA LE HISO MUY MALA PROPAGANDA

As usual, not enough or assiduous research went into the video. I don’t blame you. However, the rise of Batista in the “Sergeants Revolt” was driven by his association with a revolutionary group known as “Los Ochos”. He was brought into the group because he was the only one who owned a car. Two of the main members of this “Los Ochos” were none other than the head of, and a prominent member of the Cuban Communist Party. The true story of what occurred in Cuba is a wicked, Machiavellian tragedy. And still, the true plight of the poor people of that wretched island has not been truthfully told. The Castor brothers and their henchmen have made a private kingdom….a feudal state of one of the most advanced South American societies of the 1940’s and 1950’s. I would venture to say that Cuba today is on par with Haiti or Afghanistan in terms of social, cultural, economic and legal status. Poverty is now universal throughout the island. The regime continuous it’s tenuous hold largely due to the stream of Euros and Canadian dollars (…don’t forget the CCP as well…) that flow into the private coffers of the Castro family and those of their henchmen. In addition, Cuban exiles also send large sums of dollars to the island to help the needy, starving family members left behind. Batista was a socialist. His government brought much social reform, education, infrastructure development and other advances to the island. Look into the intertwining of the Castros and Batista. You will discover immense similarities that still to date, remain buried by the victors. Best of luck!!!!

Rats always leave a sinking ship...batista and his cronies were 22 carat rats.😊

Batista compared to Castro was a dictator's apprentice.

Excelente documental,felicitaciones.