For Cuba--for Freedom!: An M-26-7 Leader Aiding the Castro Revolution from America, 1955-1961 - Softcover

Villamia, Raul Andres; Villamia, Rhonda J.; Guzzo, Paul J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476690995 ISBN 13: 9781476690995

Verlag: McFarland, 2023

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Raul Villamia's childhood in Cuba revolved around baseball and bloodshed. The violence that he witnessed led him to support Castro's revolution, and his brother Mario introduced him to Castro's 26th of July Movement (M267). Minor league baseball brought him to the United States, where he hoped to pursue a career in the majors, and left Villamia uniquely placed to aid Castro's revolution from abroad. From Tampa, New York City, Bridgeport, Union City, Miami, and Key West, the Villamias, Angel Perez-Vidal, Howard K. Davis and others supported Castro through fundraising, collecting supplies for the revolutionaries, propaganda campaigns, and arms smuggling. Raul rubbed elbows with Castro and his top men and with American gangsters who did business in Cuba. He was hounded by the FBI, and his brother Mario is mentioned in the Warren Commission Report. This memoir recalls Villamia's experience as an advocate for Castro in the United States and tells the story of those in America whose efforts helped to oust Batista.

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The late Raul Andres Villamia came from Cuba as a professional minor league baseball player in 1947. In 1955, his brother Mario asked him to help Castro establish a M267 branch in Tampa. Raul served as its secretary and president, and as Tampa's first Cuban Consul under Castro. He retired from a 30-year career with the City of Tampa Traffic Department. He died on December 2, 2010, at the age of 95.

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• Verlag: McFarland
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1476690995
• ISBN 13: 9781476690995
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
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