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Che Guevara - Batista to Dominican Rep.

Time: Thursday Jan 1, 1959 at 03:00:00 AM

Place: Cuba

Details: At 3 am on January 1, 1959, upon learning that his generals were negotiating a separate peace with Guevara, Fulgencio Batista boarded a plane in Havana and fled for the Dominican Republic, along with an amassed "fortune of more than $300,000,000 through graft and payoffs".

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