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Fidel Castro

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Fidel Castro

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Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (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 notes, in Spanish, on both sides of a 6 x 9 off-white sheet. Notations read, “Hiram of Lubrijón…The Revolutionary Government is very aware of the desperate efforts that is [illegible] the efforts that reflect in the last days [lined out on text] the open [lined out on text] activity that the imperialism has been realizing during the last weeks in order to promote at all cost [illegible] revolutionaries, terrorism acts, murder attempts and all type of fights that have a tendency to interfere with the revolutionary process [illegible]. That activity has been doubled after after [lined out on text] reports have been expressed to the ONU to the Prime Ministe3r 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 [lined out on text and partly illegible] traitors, mercenaries of all type that [illegible] of service. Disembark between Moa and Baracoa [?] group of expatriates and gringos coming from [lined out on text] They left the United States. They are 27 in total Leader dead. One hurt and another prisoner [illegible lined out on text] quickly attacked combated [lined out on text] by the army forces and militia's farmers. [Next all lined out on text] The Ministry of the Arm Forces communicates the following: In the day of yesterday (illegible] communicates the headquarters of [illegible] Militia of the West.” In very good condition, with central horizontal and vertical folds folds, a few creases and wrinkles, chipping to top edge, several portions of text lined out, and a bit of light foxing.

Penned by Castro, these thoughts show the tension between the US 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.” Cuban officials had accused the US of sabotage following a 1960 explosion of a French freighter in Havana as its crew unloaded munitions from Belgium. The blast killed 75 and injured 200 others. 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. 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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