Aldabonazo launching a featured event at closing of Havana International Book Fair |
Militant/Bjorn Tirsén
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HAVANA, CubaThe presentation of Aldabonazo: Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1952-58, by Armando Hart, recently published in Spanish and English editions by Pathfinder Press, was one of the featured events of the closing day of the Havana International Book Fair. Hart, a central leader of the revolutionary movement that in January 1959 overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba, was the main speaker at the February 15 event, attended by some 150 people. Also speaking at the meeting were Mary-Alice Waters, the books editor and author of the publishers preface; Héctor Rodríguez Llompart, who was a leader of the July 26 Movement in Havana during the struggle against the Batista regime; Joan Cabo, president of the Federation of University Students (FEU); and Eliades Acosta, director of the José Martí National Library and author of the preface to the U.S. edition of the book. The event was broadly covered by TV and radio. Full coverage will appear in next weeks Militant.
MARTÍN KOPPEL
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