Example sentences for: batista

How can you use “batista” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Following a disastrous offensive by government troops on the rebels’ mountain strongholds in 1958, on 1 January 1959 Batista fled the country for the Dominican Republic.

  • The attack on Batista’s forces at the Moncada Barracks in 1953 thrust Fidel Castro into the national limelight, and it was in Santiago’s main square that he first declared victory, on 1 January 1959.

  • Castro was incarcerated on the Isle of Pines (now called the Isla de la Juventud) until May 1955, when Batista granted an amnesty to political prisoners.

  • Castro once roared fire and brimstone down on the Batista government here, but today you’ll find more pacific chess and domino players who have set up all-hours tables on the steps.

  • Hideous high-rise ministry buildings erected in the 1950s by Batista and a giant, tapering concrete obelisk — looking like a rocket launch pad with a pensive José Martí at its foot — provide the scenery.


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