Editing Fulgencio Batista (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:BatistaWife1958.jpg|thumb|225px|right|Batista and his wife Marta Fernández Miranda at breakfast in the [[Museum of the Revolution (Cuba)|Presidential Palace]] in April 1958]]
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===Marriages and children===
Batista married [[Elisa Godinez Gomez de Batista|Elisa Godínez y Gómez]] on July 10, 1926. They had three children: Mirta Caridad (1927–2010), Elisa Aleida (born 1933), and Fulgencio Rubén Batista Godínez (1933–2007).<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071109/NEWS01/71109004 "Son of former Cuban leader dies"]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]''. November 9, 2007. {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> By all accounts, she was devoted to him and their children throughout their marriage, and their daughter remembered them as a "happy, young couple" until their sudden divorce. Much to her surprise, he divorced her in October 1945 against her will in order to marry his longtime mistress [[Marta Fernández Miranda de Batista|Marta Fernández Miranda]].

He married Fernández on November 28, 1945, shortly after his divorce became final, and they had five children: Jorge Luis (born 1942), Roberto Francisco (born 1947), Carlos Manuel (1950–1969), Fulgencio José (born 1953) and Marta María Batista Fernández (born 1957).

====Extramarital affairs====
Batista was an inveterate philanderer who engaged in numerous extramarital affairs throughout his first marriage. He cheated on his first wife with multiple women, and his children eventually became aware of his relationships.<ref name="Argote-Freyre">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/fulgenciobatista00argo|url-access=registration|quote=divorce.|title=Fulgencio Batista: The Making of a Dictator|last=Argote-Freyre|first=Frank|year=2006|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0813541006|language=en}}</ref>{{page needed|date=June 2020}} His first wife, who supported her husband throughout his political career and found his philandering humiliating, never considered divorce and tolerated his multiple affairs.<ref name="Argote-Freyre"/>{{page needed|date=June 2020}} However, Batista became enamored with the much younger Marta Fernández Miranda, who became his longtime mistress. He filed divorce papers shortly before his first grandchild was born. His first wife and their children were astounded and devastated by the divorce.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/fulgenciobatista00argo|url-access=registration|quote=tolerated it.|title=Fulgencio Batista: The Making of a Dictator|last=Argote-Freyre|first=Frank|date=2006|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0813541006|language=en}}</ref>{{page needed|date=June 2020}}

In 1935, he had with his mistress Marina Estévez an illegitimate daughter, Fermina Lázara Carmela de las Mercedes Batista Estévez, whom he supported financially.<ref name="upi">{{cite web | url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/10/05/Widow-of-Cuban-strongman-Batista-dies/73471160087408/ | title=Widow of Cuban strongman Batista dies | work=[[United Press International]]| date=October 5, 2006 | access-date=March 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Batista Will and $3,270,000 Reported Found | work=The News Tribune | date=January 25, 1959 | agency=[[Associated Press]] | location=Fort Pierce, FL | page=11}}</ref>