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Meeting with With the Cuban leader

Cuba · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1959Date range
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Chronological records

1959

Fidel Alejandro CastroApril 1959

Government / Communist Party Government

Castro flies to Washington DC but was not met by President Eisenhower, who decides to attend a golf tournament rather than meet with the Cuban leader

Names involved

Fidel Alejandro Castro

Provenance

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