 Complete the following phrase:  Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar ; ; born Rubén Zaldívar, January 16, 1901  August 6, 1973 was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as its U.S.-backed military dictator from 1952 to 1959 before being overthrown during the 