Battle of Santa Clara and Batista’s flight
On 2 January 1959, Comandante William Alexander Morgan, an American-born Cuban guerrilla Commander, leading the Cuban Revolutionary Directorate (RD) rebel forces, captured the city of Cienfuegos as Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country.
This began on 31 December 1958, with the Battle of Santa Clara, which took place in a scene of great confusion. The city of Santa Clara fell to the combined forces of Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos, and RD rebels led by Comandantes Rolando Cubela, Juan “El Mejicano” Abrahantes Fernández, and William Alexander Morgan.
When the news of these defeats reached Havana, they caused Fulgencio Batista to panic, and he fled Cuba by air for the Dominican Republic just hours later on 1 January 1959.
Sources:Wikipedia.Alejandro Castro Espin, “The Price of Power: Transnational Security, Counterterrorism and Global Crisis in the Third Millennium", Editorial Capitán San Luis, 2009.
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