CASTRO FIDEL: (1926- ) Cuban Prime Minister 1959-76 and President 1976- 2008. D.S., Fidel Castro Ruz, two pages, folio, Presidential Palace, Havana, 29th May 1959. The typed document, in Spanish, is issued in the name of Manuel Urrutia Lleo, President of Cuba, and authorises a decision sanctioned by the cabinet of the revolutionary government ('after the commotion caused by the overthrow of tyranny') that traditional carnivals be held in the cities of Santa Clara and Sancti Spiritus, and in Holguin and Guantanamo, 'with the enthusiasm and worthy brilliance in this year of liberation', and further ordering a sum of $60,000 be made available from the Ministry of Finance and to be divided between the mayors of the named cities as an economic contribution to hold the carnivals. Signed by Castro at the conclusion and with two countersignatures including that of Rufo Lopez-Fresquet, Minister of Finance, across blind embossed seals. With a further blind embossed blue paper seal affixed with two blue ribbons beneath the signatures. Also signed by both Castro and Lopez-Fresquet with their initials to the left margin of the first page. Three file holes and some light age wear to the left edge of each page, not affecting the text or signatures, otherwise VG