#cuban revolution
New Arrivals: First Edition of Expedicion y Desembarco del “Granma” [title from cover: “Album Expedicionarios Granma”] (ca.1959).
Memorial souvenir documenting the 81 original insurgents who took part in the voyage from Tuxpan, Mexico, to the east coast of Cuba in November, 1956 – the official launching of the Cuban Revolution. Includes a photographic portrait of each of the participants, including very youthful portraits of Fidel and Raul Castro, Ernesto “Che” Guevarra, Camilo Cienfuegos, and others. Publication date uncertain, but certainly after October, 1959, as Camilo Cienfuegos is listed among the “martyrs” of the revolution. Fidel Castro is credited on title page for “leadership and direction” of the publication.
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Sankara and Castro.
Thomas Sankara (Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist and President of Burkina Faso from 1983-87)
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Moreau and Castro, Thursday 5 February 1959
In the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the Vancouver Sun sent its fashion editor, Marie Moreau, to interview Fidel Castro. You can read her story here.
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Published by the Embassy of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam in Cuba, no date, (early 1970′s)
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We Were Strangers (John Huston) (1949)
