Cartas Del PresidioPublicAffairs, 9 févr. 2007 - 184 pages Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything in between and since. These twenty-one letters (nine to Conte Aguero, six to his late sister and close collaborator, Lidia, one to his wife Mirta, one to his comrade in combat, Melba Hernandez letters, one to the great scholar Jorge Manach) are regarded as the single most valuable and revelatory document regarding Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Never before published in English, these letters were written when Castro was imprisoned for his failed attack on the Moncada from 1953 to 1955 and reveal a man of spectacular ambition and steely determination. A man, who despite being incarcerated to serve a lengthy prison term, never wavers in his confidence that he will one day rule Cuba. |
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... torture was not uncommon . But Castro - wealthy by birth and well - connected by marriage had privileges unknown to other prisoners . He served much of his twenty - two - month stay in the reasonably comfortable infirmary . However ...
... torture was not uncommon . But Castro - wealthy by birth and well - connected by marriage had privileges unknown to other prisoners . He served much of his twenty - two - month stay in the reasonably comfortable infirmary . However ...
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... torture and murder political prisoners . To tell the truth and to fight for liberty , the constitution , the people's sover- eignty and the honor of the motherland is a crime not to be for- given by those honorable magistrates who once ...
... torture and murder political prisoners . To tell the truth and to fight for liberty , the constitution , the people's sover- eignty and the honor of the motherland is a crime not to be for- given by those honorable magistrates who once ...
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... torture and how unnatural it is , or to think that these things could be done in Cuba with absolute impunity and in the midst of a frightening indiffer- ence on the part of the media . As much as we understand the moral descent that the ...
... torture and how unnatural it is , or to think that these things could be done in Cuba with absolute impunity and in the midst of a frightening indiffer- ence on the part of the media . As much as we understand the moral descent that the ...
Table des matières
March 18 1955 To René Guitart XIX March 1955 To Luis Conte Agüero | 13 |
Published | 16 |
Epilogue | 79 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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