Editing Fulgencio Batista (section)

====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>