Night flights flee Batista as Cuba trembles toward revolution
A lengthy, vivid account details Batista fleeing Havana on New Year’s Eve 1958 into a swift political collapse. Planes carried officials, family, and loyalists to the Dominican Republic and the United States while Cuban rebels gain ground, U.S. diplomats react, and chaos edges toward Castro’s rise aboard a dramatic, moonlit night.
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John Dorschner
Roberto Fabricio Knight
Havana
Dominican Republic
Fulgencio Batista
Jacksonville
New Orleans
Batista
Camp Columbia
Eulogio Cantilla
Armed Forces
Carlos Manue Piedra
Ie Supremeurt
Gen. Cantills
Tommenis
Western Hemisphere
How It All Began By New Year's Eve
Crumbling regime of Fulgencio Batista after a 1952 coup led Cuba for six years as opposition grew. Fidel Castro rose from Sierra Maestra to gain momentum via Radio Rebelde while the US halted arms shipments. By late December Batista faced UN certainty of exile as rebels advanced in Oriente and Las Villas, forging a plan for a junta.
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Rom
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Varas
Rafael Guas Inclun
View
Pam
Kuquine
Hayne
Coamo Varas
Kuguing
Andres Domingo Morales de Castilla
Gonzalo Guell
Batiste
Francisco
Lillia) Tabernilla
Batelao
Kalef Butta
el Tiempo
Las Villas
Fulgencio Batista
Teader
Fidel Castro
Me Siurra Maestra
Castro
Radio Rebelde
State Department
Partcipants
Balisia
Andres Rivero Aguero
William D. Pawley
A de Batista
Pawley
Earl E. T. Smith
United States
Rivero Aguero
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Smith
Spain
Oriente
Cuba
Barbudios
Francisco Tabernilla Dalz
Ambassador Smith
Zulogio Cantilo
Tabernilla
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