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Fidel Castro

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Fidel Castro

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Auction Date:2011 May 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Autograph speech notes, in Spanish, on both sides of a 6 x 9 off-white sheet. Notations read (translated): “Hiram of Lubrijón…The Revolutionary Government is very aware of the desperate efforts that is…the efforts that reflect in the last days [lined out on text] the open…activity that the imperialism has been realizing during the last weeks in order to promote at all cost…revolutionaries, terrorism acts, murder attempts and all type of fights that have a tendency to interfere with the revolutionary process…That activity has been doubled after…reports have been expressed to the ONU to the Prime Minister of the Government. It seems like they are worried within the Justice department of the United States Government, every time the anger and desperation increases, because of our solid activity and the victorious and uncontrollable development of our revolution that translates each time in a less dissimulated support of anti-revolutionaries, the war criminals and the worse…traitors, mercenaries of all type that…of service. Disembark between Moa and Baracoa…group of expatriates and gringos coming from…They left the United States. They are 27 in total Leader dead. One hurt and another prisoner…quickly attacked combated…by the army forces and militia’s farmers…The Ministry of the Armed Forces communicates the following: In the day of yesterday…communicates the headquarters of…Militia of the West.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a few creases and wrinkles, several portions of text lined out, chipping to top edge, and a bit of light foxing.

Castro’s hand-penned thoughts show the tension between the United States and Cuba in the wake of the 1959 revolution. His successful overthrow, he plainly notes here, threatened the US government and caused officials to attack out of “anger and desperation.” The infamous CIA-organized invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs followed in April, with more than 100 exiles dying in the attack and approximately 1,200 others taken prisoner. It was later revealed that four American pilots flying for the CIA had lost their lives as well. The Bay of Pigs assault had relied heavily on the Cuban people rising up to join the invaders, but this was not to be the case. “The victorious and uncontrollable development of our revolution that translates each time in a less dissimulated support of anti-revolutionaries, the war criminals and the worse…traitors, mercenaries of all type,” Castro gloats. One conflict is explicitly noted here, possibly the failed invasion, as Castro tallies the dead and wounded. One-of-a-kind personal insight from the Cuban leader.
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