Book IV Print 34: Fidel Castro giving speech at the University of Caracas in Venezuela

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Title
Book IV Print 34: Fidel Castro giving speech at the University of Caracas in Venezuela
Creator
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created
1959 January
Description
Images of Fidel Castro's speech at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas in Venezuela. According to St. George, a highpoint in Fidel Castro's speech was the condemnation of the decades-long dictatorship of the U.S.-trained and U.S.-supported Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, as well as the announcement of his support for the creation of an invasion force of Dominican exiles, to be led by Cuban volunteers and financed abroad. In his description for the print, St. George writes, "Three weeks after his triumph in Cuba, Castro visited Caracas, Venezuela, where he lit the fire under the first (and still his favorite) of the brewing revolutions: the planned guerrilla invasion against dictatorial Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic. On this strip is shown the historic moment as Castro launched the campaign: having inserted an unexpected and fiery outburst against Trujillo into an address in the Aula Magna of Caracas University, he ends it by picking of his own campaign hat (he has exchanged it for a beret while in the aula, in deference to college tradition) placing it on the lectern and tossing a five-bolivar note into it (Frames marked 1 and 2). He accepts the first contribution to his newly established fund for a Dominican guerrilla army from rear admiral Wolfgang Lazrrazabal, Venezuela's own (if beardless) military hero. (Frames marked 3 and 4). Then Castro triumphantly introduces his candidate for Commander-in-Chief of the Dominican rebel army, Enrique Jiménez. Frames 4 and 5, Jiménez to Castro's left. At this writing (early April 1959), Jiménez, now a Comandante, is running a top-security, barbed-wire training camp for future Dominican guerrilla warriors on the outskirts of Santa Clara, in central Las Villas province. Except for being Castro's handpicked choice, he's a relative newcomer to the Dominican exile command, where envious compatriots have dubbed him 'Fidel's Dominican Gauleiter.'" In this print, frames that St. George designates as having "marked" show his own handwritten enumeration over the image in colored wax pencil. See also Prints 1-18, 37, and Contact Book III.
Provenance
Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
Multiple languages

Item Location

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives
Call Number
MS 650
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Container / Volume
Box 3, folder 280

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Citation
Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018280

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