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Batista's rule came under increasing assault during the 1950s, and he and the Cuban military soon found themselves fighting against a young Castro and the forces of his 26th of July Movement.
He was a Major of the Cuban Army in 1960 when he decided to defect to the United States via a motor boat to Miami.