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Item no. S520 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Cuba

Date of issue: 8 October 1997

Catalog number: Scott no. 3873 (of 3872 – 3874)

Stamp, of 3-stamp set, honoring V Congress of Communist Party of Cuba. The stamp shows Fidel Castro’s fragment of speech and a graphic representation of an iconic photograph of revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the background. The photograph was taken on 5th March 1960 by Cuban photographer ALBERTO KORDA (real name Alberto Diaz Gutierrez [1928 – 2001]) at Havana cemetery during funeral services for victims of explosion at the ship “La Coubre”.

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