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.