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The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

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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 used to be the recipient of these types of letters, they’re cited in each important work from Hugh Thomas’ opus Cuba to Tad Szulc’s Fidel biography, and the whole lot 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 thought to be 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 used to be imprisoned for his failed attack at the Moncada from 1953 to 1955 and reveal a man of spectacular ambition and steely determination. A man, who in spite of being incarcerated to serve a lengthy prison term, never wavers in his confidence that he’ll sooner or later rule Cuba.
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