The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

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PublicAffairs, 29 avr. 2009 - 208 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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I December 12 1953 To Luis Conte Agüero
1
II April 17 1954 To Melba Hernandez
15
III June 12 1954 To Luis Conte Agüero
18
IV June 19 1954 To Luis Conte Agüero
23
V July 6 1954 To Luis Conte Agüero
29
VI July 17 1954 To Mirta DiazBalart
30
VII July 17 1954 To Luis Conte Agüero
32
VIII July 22 1954 To Lidia Castro Argota
34
XIV December 8 1954 To Lidia Castro
51
XV December 16 1054 To Rene Guitart
53
XVI February 17 1955 To Jorge Manach
56
XVII March 13 1955 to Lidia Castro
59
XVIII March 18 1955 to Rene Guitart
62
XIX March 1955 To Luis Conte Agüero
65
XX March 22 1955 To Maria Laborde
72
XXI May 2 1955 to Lidia Castro
74

IX July 31 1954 To Luis Conte Agüero
35
X undated To Luis Conte Agüero
39
XI August 14 1954 To Luis Conte Agüero
43
XII October 25 1954 To Lidia Castro
47
XIII November 20 1954 To Lidia Castro
49
Epilogue by Luis Conte Agüero
79
Cartas del Persidio de Fidel Castro
83
Acknowledgments
185
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Ann Louise Bardach is an award-winning investigative journalist who has been covering Cuba for ten years for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other national publications. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, Dateline, CNN, The O'Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, and NPR. She is the author of Cuba Confidential and lives in Santa Barbara, CA.

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