The Miami Herald has published a set of photos of Fidel Castro that have never been published before. The set of 53 photos recently published by El Nuevo and the Miami Herald are excerpted from more than 400 photos that were given to the newspapers by Loret de Mola, a Cuban lawyer who defected to the US in 2003.
The photographs were taken from the personal collection of Comandante René Vallejo, who became Fidel Castro's personal doctor after serving with him in the Sierra Maestra Mountains of Cuba during the years leading up to the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Vallejo died in 1959.
As a member of Castro's inner circle, Vallejo often received unpublished photos from Soviet news photographers, as well as Cubans who were covering Fidel Castro's activities and travels.One photo shows young Fidel at the age of 15, standing in front of a post office in his home town of Biran.
The photos are a treasure to historians who study body language in photos for glimpses into the mindset of Castro, or the position of other political figures in relationship to Castro in official photos.
It is not yet known of all of the over 400 pictures of Castro will be released to the public, or if Loret de Mola has more such photos in his possession. The next, far greater buried treasure remains in Cuba itself, and that would be the files and correspondence of various government ministries, particularly the secret police. If communism falls in Cuba as it did in Russia and East Germany, such revelations are a distinct possibility. If Cuban communism morphs into authoritarian capitalism, as it has in China, such leaks are far less likely. What additional treasures await historians? Perhaps the next Cuban exile to arrive in Miami will bring surprises.
Miami Herald article
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