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CASTRO FIDEL
(1926-2016).
MANUSCRIT autographe signé « Fidel Castro », [1959] ;
2 pages in-4 avec ratures et corrections, en-tête
Republica
de Cuba. Ministerio de Defensa nacional. Ejercito
(trous
de classeur) ; en espagnol.
4 000 / 5 000 €
Présentation de l’importante loi agraire de 1959, touchant
à la propriété des terres agricoles et à l’Institut national de réforme
agraire
.
La Loi agraire qui sera approuvée en Conseil des Ministres, dans la
réunion historique du commandement général de l’armée rebelle,
réalise une promesse faite au Peuple et à la Nation. Cuba commencera
une lutte extraordinaire, si tous s’élèvent au-dessus de l’avarice, en
se dévouant au travail en faveur d’un brillant avenir et en acceptant
les sacrifices que cette décision impose, pour fonder une paix sans
faim ni oppression… Castro exhorte ses compatriotes à atteindre le
bonheur possible dans la liberté et la justice, au-dessus des intérêts
et dans l’union, avec tous et pour le bien de tous…
CASTRO FIDEL
(1926-2016).
Autographe manuscript, signed « Fidel Castro », [1959] ;
2 pages in-4 format, with erasures and corrections, on
letterhead
“Republica de Cuba. Ministerio de Defensa
nacional. Ejercito”
(perforations to paper from a binder) ;
in Spanish.
4 000 / 5 000 €
Presentation of the important 1959 agrarian law on the ownership
of agricultural land and the National Institute for Agrarian Reform.
Castro drafts a speech on agrarian law. In February 1959 Castro became
Prime Minister and thus head of the Cuban government. On April
15 he visited the United States and Canada, stopping in Washington,
D.C., New York, Princeton, and Montreal.
« The very day after he returned from his trip, Castro announced his
agrarian reform. It was really the key to everything. Under the Agrarian
Reform Bill American and Cuban sugar mills were stripped of their
cane fields; no foreigner could acquire farmland in Cuba or inherit
it; upwards of two hundred thousand peasants would receive land.
But in fact the peasant was simply exchanging the private owner as
boss for the government as boss because (1) the land could never be
sold or mortgaged, and (2) the peasants were to grow crops ordered
by the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) and they were to
deliver their crops at the price set. »
« INRA in a real sense now became the new Cuban state. A strong axis
was created between INRA and the Rebel Army, with INRA providing
the economic and political decision-making body for the former’s
military power. INRA created its own armed hundred-thousand-man
militia set up its own department of industrialization headed by Che
[Guevara], and formed a department of commercialization. INRA
built roads, seized private lands, and created tourist resorts. Soon
Castro was literally running Cuba through INRA. Like a deceptively
purposeless honeybee creating its hundreds of secreted little pockets
of wax, Fidel Castro was busily constructing the social and political
rooms of the new Cuban national home » [Georgie Anne Geyer,
Guerrilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro
(1991)].