Fidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me

Glossary

• Apostle a reference to José Martí, known as the “apostle of independence”
• arrobas measures of weight (1 arroba = 11.3 kilograms, or about 25 pounds)
• caballería measure of land used in Spanish-speaking countries; in Cuba, 33.2 acres
• ex-president Prío Carlos Prío Socarrás, who in 1952 was deposed as president of Cuba by Fulgencio Batista in a military coup
• land of Martí Cuba; that is, the homeland of the Cuban poet and revolutionary José Martí
• rickets a nutritional deficiency disease that results in bone deformations in children
• Ugalde Carrillo colonel in Batista's Military Intelligence Service who nearly uncovered Castro's plans to storm the Moncada Barracks
• … who fell in Santiago a reference to Castro's men who died at Moncada