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FIDEL CASTRO(b. 1927) Cuban revolutionary who led the guerilla campaign against Batista, overthrowing the dictator and replacing him with the first communist government in the Western Hemisphere. Early D.S. as Prime Minister, 1p. folio, Havana, June 19, 1959 in Spanish executing an order of President MANUEL URRUTIA LLEO, who also signs, ordering $6,000 to be spent for a naval affairs mission. Urrutia served as president in the first revolutionary government in 1959, but after a series of disputes with Castro, he was obliged to leave the country, emigrating to the United States. File holes at left, some losses along left margin, lightly toned at bottom, else very good.

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