CASTRO AND NIXON

Photographer: Unknown
Date: 1959

Um compromisso improvável. Fidel Castro e Richard Nixon apertam as mãos a 21 de Abril de 1959. Dois meses antes, Castro tornara-se Presidente de Cuba proclamando a revolução Marxista-Leninista. Nixon era o vice-presidente de Eisenhower e um furioso anti-comunista.

An unlikely entente. Fidel Castro and Richard Nixon shake hands on 21 April 1959. Two months earlier, Castro had become President of Cuba and proclaimed the Marxist-Leninist revolution. Nixon was Eisenhower's vice-president and a rabid anti-communist.