Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (; December 2, 1904 – June 19, 1993) was the First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 as the first wife of Cuban then-president (later dictator)

Fulgencio Batista Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power as part of the 1933 Revolt of t ...

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Godínez was born in a small farmhouse in the village of Vereda Nueva in Havana Province, as one of nine children born to Salustiano Godínez y Córdoba and Concepción Gómez y Acosta. Godínez, who shared his humble origins, married Fulgencio Batista in 1926. They had a son, Fulgencio Rubén, and two daughters, Mirta and Elisa Aleida. They divorced in 1945. Godínez married her second husband, Máximo Rodríguez, a former member of the Cuban Congress, and they immigrated to the United States in 1959, settling in Miami, Florida. Rodríguez died in 1962, and Godínez resided in Miami until her death there on June 19, 1993, at age 88. One of her grandsons (the son of Elisa Aleida Batista) is Raoul G. Cantero III, a Justice of the

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from 2002 to 2008.

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