Fertile Prison: Fidel Castro in Batista's Prisons

by Mario Mencia

This is the story of the period in which Fidel Castro and his young compa eros, including two women, were imprisoned after the July 26, 1953, attack on the Moncada military garrison in Santiago de Cuba and how the Batista dictatorship was eventually forced to release them.

From solitary confinement, Fidel Castro wrote: "I don't think we are wasting our time in prison... For us this prison is an academy of struggle, and when the time comes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1875284087
• ISBN13: 9781875284085
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Ocean Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

BarbarellaSJSU

This book is very interesting! It shows how the Americans supported Flugencio Batista and his government! It also shows how Castro was not trusted by the American Businesses because they didn't feel he wouldn't be good to their profit scheming ways! This is a good book for anyone who is wanting to learn more about Fidel Castro and learn the truth about Flugencio Batista