Cartas Del PresidioPublicAffairs, 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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... prison on the Isle of Pines . Modeled on the federal prison in Joliet , Illinois , the Isle of Pines facility is separated from the mainland by sixty - two miles of shark - swirling waters . Visitors were obliged to take a three- hour ...
... prison on the Isle of Pines . Modeled on the federal prison in Joliet , Illinois , the Isle of Pines facility is separated from the mainland by sixty - two miles of shark - swirling waters . Visitors were obliged to take a three- hour ...
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... prison . It would be too much to think that this dictatorship's jailers would be kind enough to allow two Cuban friends , whom they tore from homeland and family , to shake hands and exchange greetings in their common prison . I could ...
... prison . It would be too much to think that this dictatorship's jailers would be kind enough to allow two Cuban friends , whom they tore from homeland and family , to shake hands and exchange greetings in their common prison . I could ...
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... prison . One is never satisfied in any place , but here at least , one is not bothered by creditors . Perhaps Balzac , always hounded by this class of characters , would have felt at ease in such circum- stances . Let us hope that my ...
... prison . One is never satisfied in any place , but here at least , one is not bothered by creditors . Perhaps Balzac , always hounded by this class of characters , would have felt at ease in such circum- stances . Let us hope that my ...
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December 12 1953 To Luis Conte Agüero | 1 |
April 17 1954 To Melba Hernández | 15 |
June 12 1954 To Luis Conte Agüero | 18 |
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