Drawing of American political prisoners by Ricardo, age 11  The captions have two of the Soledad Brothers saying, “We are prisoners, our chains are unjust,” and “We won’t allow further abuses,” while the other three (Bobby, Angela and an Indian) remark, “We haven’t done anything except what is just to defend our homeland,” and Bobby adds, “Get out of Laos,” as the Indian sister observes, “Nixon will die, but first we’ll teach him.” — The Children of Che: A Day in a Cuban School by Karen Wald
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Drawing of American political prisoners by Ricardo, age 11 

The captions have two of the Soledad Brothers saying, “We are prisoners, our chains are unjust,” and “We won’t allow further abuses,” while the other three (Bobby, Angela and an Indian) remark, “We haven’t done anything except what is just to defend our homeland,” and Bobby adds, “Get out of Laos,” as the Indian sister observes, “Nixon will die, but first we’ll teach him.” — The Children of Che: A Day in a Cuban School by Karen Wald

Written by J.M. Picart and Mario Jimenez, with drawings by Capdevila, Album De La Revolución Cubana was published shortly following the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. This is propaganda in its purest form, but it’s also a pretty solid history, and, even if you don’t read Spanish, the illustrations alone make it worth the click through. Full book HERE
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Written by J.M. Picart and Mario Jimenez, with drawings by Capdevila, Album De La Revolución Cubana was published shortly following the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. This is propaganda in its purest form, but it’s also a pretty solid history, and, even if you don’t read Spanish, the illustrations alone make it worth the click through.

Full book HERE

Fidel and the doves. On January 8, 1959 Fidel Castro gave his first public speech in Havana after the triumph of the Revolution; he spoke from a small stage set up on the parade field at the Columbia military facilities. In the middle of his speech, several white doves started fluttering around him. One perched on his shoulder and sat there for several minutes, in a scene that enthralled the people in the audience and the hundreds of thousands who were watching the spectacle on TV. — Ignacio Ramonet in Fidel Castro: My LifeCubans are a people with powerful religious and spiritistic superstitions, going back to the Afro-Cuban traditions of slavery, and that night in January confirmed their faith: The dove in Cuban myths represents life, and now Fidel had their protection. — Tad Szulc in Fidel: A Critical Portrait
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Fidel and the doves.

On January 8, 1959 Fidel Castro gave his first public speech in Havana after the triumph of the Revolution; he spoke from a small stage set up on the parade field at the Columbia military facilities. In the middle of his speech, several white doves started fluttering around him. One perched on his shoulder and sat there for several minutes, in a scene that enthralled the people in the audience and the hundreds of thousands who were watching the spectacle on TV. — Ignacio Ramonet in Fidel Castro: My Life

Cubans are a people with powerful religious and spiritistic superstitions, going back to the Afro-Cuban traditions of slavery, and that night in January confirmed their faith: The dove in Cuban myths represents life, and now Fidel had their protection. — Tad Szulc in Fidel: A Critical Portrait

Rat Subterranean News (1970). Reprinted from 150 Questions for a Guerrilla by General Alberto Bayo. Bayo was a Spanish general who was born in Cuba before independence. He fought in Morocco in the ’20s and later in the ’30s as a Republican officer in the Spanish Civil War. After Franco came to power he went into exile in Mexico. Bayo is the one that trained Fidel Castro and his men in guerrilla warfare theory and tactics while they were in Mexico City in the late ’50s. As unlikely as the triumph of the Cuban Revolution ultimately was, it really would have been impossible without the training and guidance from General Bayo. It’s no surprise that his pamphlets proved to be popular with the American radicals in the ’60s and ’70s.
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Rat Subterranean News (1970). Reprinted from 150 Questions for a Guerrilla by General Alberto Bayo. Bayo was a Spanish general who was born in Cuba before independence. He fought in Morocco in the ’20s and later in the ’30s as a Republican officer in the Spanish Civil War. After Franco came to power he went into exile in Mexico. Bayo is the one that trained Fidel Castro and his men in guerrilla warfare theory and tactics while they were in Mexico City in the late ’50s. As unlikely as the triumph of the Cuban Revolution ultimately was, it really would have been impossible without the training and guidance from General Bayo. It’s no surprise that his pamphlets proved to be popular with the American radicals in the ’60s and ’70s.