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CASTRO, FIDEL

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CASTRO, FIDEL
(b. 1927) Cuban revolutionary who led the guerilla campaign against Batista, overthrowing the dictator and replacing him with the first communist government in the Western Hemisphere. Important D.S. "Fidel Castro" as Prime Minister, 3pp. folio on Republic of Cuba Presidencia letterhead, Presidential Palace, Havana, Feb. 27, 1959 ("Year of Liberation"), headed "Law No. 104". In this historic document, Castro creates the position of Consul General with the rank of Minister of Cuba, to serve as Cuba's representative in Miami. The document justifies the appointment in light of Miami's "...exceptional importance to the Cuban Revolutionary Movement…", and sets the office's budget at $5,000 per year. Only two weeks earlier, Castro had assumed the mantle of Prime Minister, and on April 15, 1959, unofficially visited the United States and met with Vice President Richard Nixon. Despite his efforts to normalize relations, Castro's increasingly Socialist policies and nationalization of American holdings soon brought about a complete severing of ties with the United States. First page bears toning at three margins, file holes in left margin, otherwise very good.