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To get where he was, Batista led two separate coups. His policies were considered rash, inconsistent, and unfair, even brutal. Batistas increasing reliance on the armed forces and corruption as his sole bases of power eventually alienated those upper-class Cubans who had originally accepted and even welcomed his rule, (Farber 213). Batista ruled with the support of a few powerful individuals, and those individuals had no ability to prevent revolution. It was in the wake of the second, in 1958, that Fidel Castro participated in rebellion. Rebellions need a reason in order for them to be truly successful. That reason cant be appealing to just a few people, but to nearly everyone. In order to remain in power, Batista had to exercise control over a variety of different factions within his government (it was, afterall, a democracy). This also meant that his government had to function in large part like an actual democracy. People who live in a democratic nation come to expect that elections exist so that dictators cannot be possible and that a representative government would then dedicate itself to the betterment of the people. Batistas controls, however, were exercised such that votes were tampered with, opposition

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