Cuban conundrum.

AuthorDe Cardenas, Raul
PositionLetters

This is just a short note to correct a mistake made over and over for the past 40 years, including by Damien Cave ("Castro's Casting Couch," April): When he was over-thrown by Fidel Castro in 1959, Fulgencio Batista never came to the United States. He flew, with his family, to the Dominican Republic, at that time under the Trujillo dictatorship. Afterwards, with the help of the Portuguese and Spanish governments, he was able to leave for Europe. While...

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