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Kenneth Brana. Throughout the 19 forties and fifties, the Caribbean island of Cuba had been America's playground beaches, booze and casinos. Havana had it'll. Cuba's land and industry were owned almost entirely by American corporations. Cuba's leader, Fulgencio Batista, was a brutal dictator. His people were turning against him after years of guerrilla fighting in the mountains, a charismatic 33 year old lawyer, Fidel Castro, entered Havana on the eighth of January in 1959.