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motorcade accidentally forced her off the road. Impressed by her beauty, Batista took her as a mistress but later decided to leave his first wife and marry Marta. They moved to the United States during the 1940s after
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Batista had already been Cuban President once, from 1940 to 1944. Following his divorce from his first wife in October 1945, he married Marta Fernández Miranda on November 28, 1945. The couple met when Marta was 20 years old and riding a bicycle through a Havana neighborhood and Batista's
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agent the next day and purchased a large riverfront house, where they lived on and off while continuing to influence Cuban politics.
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