CASTRO FIDEL: (1926-2016) Cuban Prime Minister 1959-76 and President 1976- 2008. D.S., `Fidel Castro Ruz´, one page ...

CASTRO FIDEL: (1926-2016) Cuban Prime Minister 1959-76 and President 1976- 2008. D.S., `Fidel Castro Ruz´, one page, folio, Presidential Palace, Havana, 7th July 1959, in Spanish. Signed by Castro in his capacity as Prime Minister. The document is dated in 1959, which they identify as `The Year of Liberation´. The typed document bears the printed heading of « Republic of Cuba -Presidency » and is issued and signed by Manuel Urrutia Lleo (1901-1981), President of Cuba from January to July 1959, and relates to the use of funds recovered from goods embezzlement for public use. By this document, a new law nº 428 is approved and orders the increase credit of the values of good in the budget, including furniture and vehicles recuperated by the new Government. Signed at the foot by Castro in his capacity as Prime Minister, also signed by Manuel Urrutia Lleo as President of Cuba, and by Rufo Lopez-Fresquet. Castro and Lopez-Fresquet have both signed their names across attractive blind embossed Cuban seals. The document also bears an affixed blue paper seal with its original blue ribbons. Three file holes to the left edge and few very small pinholes with slightly trimmed upper left edge, none of which affect the text or signatures. G to VG The present document is signed only two weeks before President Urrutia was forced to resign. On 23rd July 1959, Castro resumed his position as Premier and appointed Osvaldo Dorticos as the new President. Rufo Lopez-Fresquet (1911-1983) Cuban distinguished Economist who became Castro´s first Minister of the Treasury. In 2005, Rufo Lopez-Fresquet was portrayed in the movie The Lost City (2005)