what were 4 problems with Batista's leadership in Cuba?

Question

four breif answers (perhaps a sentence long)

Answer 1

Main problems:

1. shortage of funds

2. large bureaucracy

3. the military answers to Batista’

4. gangster-like political violence (emulated from Chicago)

5. political corruption – people brought favors from politicians

6. labor controlled by the Communist party

Answer 2

Near the end of 1955, anti-Batista demonstrations and student rioting were frequent. The military police dealt with the opposition violently. Students who wanted to march from the University of Havana were stopped by the police and beaten. One of the student leaders, José A. Echeverría, had to be hosptialized. When another popular student leader was killed on December 10th, his funeral led to a nationwide protest, with a 5-minute nationwide work stoppage. Batista suspended constitutional rights, put tighter censorship restrictions on what the media could report. The military police patrolled streets picking up anyone suspected of being part of the insurrection.

Among the numerous opponents to Batista was Fidel Castro, Castro had a relatively effective net of informants who were successful in predicting attacks by Batista. The notorious BRAC (Buro de Repression de Actividades Comunistas) (see "Repuesta" pp. 57-64) was not effective against overt and covert communists but apparently used communist contacts to provide high level X-4 information (e.g. "Repuesta" p. 132) on disaffected officials of the Cuban Army and non-Castro resistance that was almost without exception co-opted. In May 1958, in response to a pre-warned and failed assault on the presidential palace by other resistance groups (see "Repuesta" pp. 57-64), Batista launched a major assault against Castro and the other rebel groups (unaffiliated with Castro). Despite being outnumbered (Castro claims his men numbered fewer than 100; however, there were far greater numbers of pickets or scouts (escopeteros) who saw action in those days), Castro's forces scored a series of victories, aided by the corruption of Batista's leading army officers and massive desertions. During this period, the U.S. broke off relations with Batista, stating that a peaceful transition to a new government was necessary and imposed an embargo preventing Batista from acquiring American arms. US companies still had extensive business interests in Cuba at this time, and the unrest was damaging to these. According to Antonio Núñez Jiménez, a military commander and minister under Castro at the time that Batista was deposed, 75% of Cuba's prime farmland was owned by foreign individuals (inclusive of Fidel's own father who was a Spanish citizen) or foreign (mostly U.S.) companies. This data differs substantially from the one reported in 1958 for the Latin American Annual Yearbook by the Cuban Chamber of Commerce showing a significant increase in the ownership of lands and industries by Cuban nationals as a result of Batista's economic policies during his years in power. Against this backdrop of growing civil war, Batista, constitutionally prohibited from continuing as president, organized an election in which his preferred candidate Carlos Rivero Aguero defeated Grau. That was not enough, however, as his regime began to collapse. On January 1, 1959, Batista's regime collapsed after his departure from Cuba. Castro's forces entered Havana one week later on January 8, 1959.

Answer 3

corruption, money laundry, police state, protectionism ... i guess