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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... Notes to Letter III . 1. Dr. Pelayo Cuervo was murdered under Batista in 1957. Dr. José Manuel Gutiérrez and journalist Ernesto Montaner died in exile . Carlos Lechuga became Cuba's ambassador to the UN in Geneva from 1959 to 1989 . 2 ...
... Notes to Letter III . 1. Dr. Pelayo Cuervo was murdered under Batista in 1957. Dr. José Manuel Gutiérrez and journalist Ernesto Montaner died in exile . Carlos Lechuga became Cuba's ambassador to the UN in Geneva from 1959 to 1989 . 2 ...
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... Notes to Letter IV . 1. Refers to Letter III . Foonote 4 . 2. Raúl Cepero Bonilla was Minister of Commerce in 1959. Died in an airplane crash in 1962 . 3. Conte Agüero chaired the Committee for Political Amnesty . 4. Ramón Hermida ...
... Notes to Letter IV . 1. Refers to Letter III . Foonote 4 . 2. Raúl Cepero Bonilla was Minister of Commerce in 1959. Died in an airplane crash in 1962 . 3. Conte Agüero chaired the Committee for Political Amnesty . 4. Ramón Hermida ...
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... Notes to Letter XII . 1. Pedro Emilio Castro Argota , Castro's older half - brother , at this time a candi- date for Congress but withdrew before the election . Died in Cuba in 2001 . 2. Chucho , Jesús Montane Oropesa became an ...
... Notes to Letter XII . 1. Pedro Emilio Castro Argota , Castro's older half - brother , at this time a candi- date for Congress but withdrew before the election . Died in Cuba in 2001 . 2. Chucho , Jesús Montane Oropesa became an ...
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March 18 1955 To René Guitart | 4 |
March 1955 To Luis Conte Agüero | 13 |
Published | 16 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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