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Camilo CIENFUEGOS Autograph letter signed - 1959

Camilo CIENFUEGOS (1932 - 1959), Cuban revolutionary.

Autograph letter signed “Camilo Cienfugos” to the inhabitants of Camagüey. (1959); 1 page in-8°.

Very rare and capital letter from the great Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos, who thanks the inhabitants of Camagüey for having foiled a betrayal against the homeland. This is a major event in the beginnings of the new communist regime established in Cuba in January 1959. After the triumph of the revolution, Huber Matos, a senior revolutionary figure, companion of Fidel Castro, was named for his actions. of arms at the head of the province of Camagüey. But the latter, not looking very favorably on the too communist turn taken by the movement, resigned to Castro who then suspected him of conspiracy with anti-communist exiles in the United States. Camilo Cienfuegos is sent to Camagüey to arrest Matos on Castro's orders. Once done, Cienfuegos leaves on October 28 by plane to Havana, but his plane disappears from the radars, it will never be found. This letter from Cienfuegos thanks the people of Camagüey for their participation in the arrest of Huber Matos: “Through Diario Adelante [Cuban newspaper], we are the ones who say thank you, thank you Camaqueyano people, your presence in the camp of Agramonte [Ignacio Agramonte (1841-1873 is a revolutionary who played a decisive role in the Ten Years' War in Cuba, he is a native of Camagüey] helped resolve a new betrayal of the Fatherland [reference here to the arrest of Huber Matos indicted by Castro for treason and sedition]. There will be traitors, but not like the people of Camagüey [city located in east-central Cuba], a beloved and combative people, always ready to fight for their ideals. more resounding, that's why, I thank them once again and I am always grateful for everything, I and all the fighters fought in this epic. Revolutionary »



Text in Spanish: “Por conducto del Diario Adelante somos nosotros quienes decimos gracias, gracias pueblo Camagueyano, tu presencia en el campamento agramonte, ayudo a solucionar una nueva traicion a la Patria traidores habrá, pero no como el pueblo de Camagüey, un pueblo aquerrido y combativo, siempre dispuesto a combatir por sus ideales mas rotundos por eso, les afradezco una vez mas y siempre les estavé aquadecido por todo, yo y todos los combatientes fue hemos librado esta epopeya. Revolucionariamente…”
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