ABSTRACT
The civil war having come to an end when Fulgencio Batista with family and close associates fled Cuba in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 1959, the clandestine movement took control of Havana. Two of the top guerrilla captains, Ernesto Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, raced to Havana with troops and seized the capital’s primary military points, Camp Columbia and La Cabana Fortress. Castro, still out in easternmost Oriente Province, began a slower trip to Havana. Mallin, with another Time reporter, Jerry Hannifin, and a Life photographer, Grey Villet, flew in a small aircraft to meet Castro. They commandeered a former Military Intelligence car and a Red Cross driver. Mallin later filed this report to Time.
