Chivatos is a Cuban term for those who cooperated with Batista's Government denouncing people as revolutuionaries or against the regime. Those people had a good salary for do it and the most of them were arrested or executed when the Revolution triumphed on January 1 of 1959. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the de facto military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and the de jure President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...