11.03.2013 - 11:01 [ Guardian ]

From the archive, 11 March 1952: Batista‘s revolution

General Fulgencio Batista, who led his first revolution in 1933 while still a sergeant, staged his fifth revolution to-day, taking over Havana and the Presidential Palace to „save the Republic from chaos.“ About two hundred people lined the sides of the Palace Square watching as calmly as if they were in a cinema.