Book VI Print 63: Demonstrations against the flight of Pedro Díaz Lanz

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Title
Book VI Print 63: Demonstrations against the flight of Pedro Díaz Lanz
Creator
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created
1959 October
Description
Various images of street protests in response to the flight of Pedro Díaz Lanz, the former chief of Cuba's Revolutionary Air Force, who had defected to Miami in June of 1959, and had carried out a leafletting campaign in the early morning hours of October 20, 1959. The plane was found to have originated from Florida, to which it returned after receiving anti-aircraft fire from the ground in Cuba. Because of minor damage inflicted either by the plane's alleged dropping of a bomb or by shrapnel released when it engaged Cuban jets and defensive fire from the ground, the Cuban government declared the air raid "Havana's Pearl Harbor" and mobilized thousands of protestors against what it indirectly declared an act of indirect United States aggression toward Cuba carried out by batistiano loyalists with ties to the CIA based in Miami. In frame 17 of the second row, protestors hold signs reading "Pedimos devolución de traidores y asesinos," a reference to the United States' willingness to harbor former members of the Batista regime whom protestors wanted tried for war crimes in Cuba. Another protestor in the same frame holds a sign reading "No más bombardeo a cuidades" and a third sign reads "Paredón para los traidores." Frame 13 of the third row shows a man holding a copy of the 26th of July Movement's official newspaper, Revolución, whose headline reads "Fidel aquí estamos." Frame 15 of the same row shows men sitting on the flatbed of a truck; sticking out of the window of the truck is a painted wooden machete that reads "Obreros de Mazorra presente," or "The Workers of Mazorra are Present." Mazorra is Havana's asylum for the mentally insane that became infamous for its inhumane and brutal treatment of patients when the free press investigated conditions after the fall of Batista in January 1959. The rehabilitation and transformation of Mazorra into a premier asylum was considered one of the first great feats of the Revolution in Cuba. See also Prints 35, 45, 63, 68, 69 and 71.
Provenance
Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
Multiple languages

Item Location

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives
Call Number
MS 650
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Container / Volume
Box 4, folder 432

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Citation
Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018433

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