BATISTA IN EXILE
Explanation For Defeat CIUDAD TRUJILLO (Dominican Republic). Jan. 1. Fulgencio Batista said today Fidel Castro’s guerrilla warfare and superior armament, as Batista called it. had forced him to give up the fight in Cuba.
The overthrown Cuban President reached exile in the Dominican Republic capital today with 40 other persons, including high officials of the Batista regime and army. The Dominican Republic is governed by Batista’s good friend, the dictator, Rafael Trujillo.
A reporter asked Batista how it had been possible for a comparative handful of rebels to grow in two years into a force of sufficient size to topple the entrenched Batista regime. Batista said Castro “got the jump” on the Government by restricting his activities to guerrilla warfare against rural soldiers not trained for that type of. fighting. By the time the rebels moved into the open in eastern Cuba, he said, they had attracted many more adherents, and had superior armament.
The rebels received a continuous flow of arms, while Govern* meet troops could not be supplied, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28784, 3 January 1959, Page 11
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