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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... thought of my son sleeping for one night under the same roof that shelters my most despicable enemies and receiving on his innocent cheeks the kisses of those miserable Judases . I have endured their aggressions with the same strength I ...
... thought of my son sleeping for one night under the same roof that shelters my most despicable enemies and receiving on his innocent cheeks the kisses of those miserable Judases . I have endured their aggressions with the same strength I ...
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... thought they could easily take advantage of the situation and have now begun to see their string of stupidi- ties . From their heights they thought all inequities were pos- sible ; now they are growing afraid . Let the responsibilities ...
... thought they could easily take advantage of the situation and have now begun to see their string of stupidi- ties . From their heights they thought all inequities were pos- sible ; now they are growing afraid . Let the responsibilities ...
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... thought that in the hands of such an illustrious courier the letter would ease the awk- wardness of being written by a citizen confined on this Isle who does not even have the honor of being a friend of the addressee . To tell you the ...
... thought that in the hands of such an illustrious courier the letter would ease the awk- wardness of being written by a citizen confined on this Isle who does not even have the honor of being a friend of the addressee . To tell you the ...
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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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