30.10.09

From Fidel to Roosevelt

















Não conheço a letra de Fidel de Castro, nem tenho qualquer possibilidade de saber se esta carta é verdadeira. Terá sido escrita quando Franklin D. Roosevelt foi reeleito para o seu terceiro mandato como presidente dos Estados Unidos, mas há um elemento suspeito: em Novembro de 1940, Fidel tinha 14 anos e o autor da carta diz ter 12. Erro de inglês?
Se a carta tiver sido escrita por Fidel, tem a sua graça...

As três páginas manuscritas podem ser vistas aqui.

Santiago de Cuba
Nov 6 1940
Mr Franklin Roosvelt, President of the United States.

My good friend Roosvelt I don't know very English, but I know as much as write to you. I like to hear the radio, and I am very happy, because I heard in it, that you will be President for a new (periodo). I am twelve years old. I am a boy but I think very much but I do not think that I am writing to the President of the United States. If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green american, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green american and I would like to have one of them.

My address is:
Sr Fidel Castro
Colegio de Dolores
Santiago de Cuba
Oriente Cuba

I don't know very English but I know very much Spanish and I suppose you don't know very Spanish but you know very English because you are American but I am not American.
(Thank you very much)
Good by. Your friend,
(Signed)
Fidel Castro

If you want iron to make your sheaps ships I will show to you the bigest (minas) of iron of the land. They are in Mayari Oriente Cuba.

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