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 | | In any discussion of alternatives to Castro in the 1950s, one cannot neglect Carlos Prio Socarras To be sure, the most bitter critics of Batista's coup recognized that Prio's corrupt administration had done much to discredit democracy in Cuba. |
 | | Yet Prio had, apart from the legitimacy conferred by being the last democratically elected president of Cuba, one major advantage over his competitors in the struggle to oust Batista: he was a very wealthy man and was willing to use his money to finance all sorts of anti-Batista plots. |
 | | Prio was put under house arrest; later he was allowed to leave for Miami--where he sought two surprising allies for his further schemes to overthrow Batista. |
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