
S2 Episode 3 - "New Normal"
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Batista and the Built-Morte Terrorist Hotel in Florida
By the middle of 1959, it was basically an open secret that Cuban counter-revolutionaries were being trained, equipped and recruited in Florida. Local police were paid to look the other way. The most ambitious Batista-sponsored operation was known as the Padraza Plan. It was organized by a bunch of thugs from the Batista era who had escaped Cuba under the tutelage of a mob-connected general.
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