Having identified and comprehended the considerable inadequacies of the Batista government, one can clearly state that Fidel Castro’s rise to power was largely successful due to the overwhelming anti-batista sentiment in Cuba during the revolution of 1959. The Cuban revolution began in 1952. It flared when army sergeant Fulgencio Batista seized power during the presidential elections, between 1940 to 1944 and ran for presidential elections again in 1952. Batista was a very unfair ruler and competitor, as when it came to his attention that he was going to lose against others running in the elections, he led a military coup that preempted the election. Back in power, Batista’s increasingly corrupt and repressive government started to get civilians
