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Title
Manuel Antonio (Tony) de Varona Collection
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34 Boxes
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Biographical history
Tony Varona was a major figure, both in Cuba, and later in the Cuban exile community in the United States. He was a loyal supporter of President Carlos Prio and served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1948-1950. When the Cuban Revolution began, he worked with Prio and the Central Intelligence Agency to instigate a counter-revolution, ultimately having to flee to Miami. He co-founded Movimiento de Recuperacion Revolucionario(MRR) and later headed Consejo Revolucionario Cuba, the Cuban government-in-exile. He was a notable anti-Castro leader in the United States.
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Scope and content
The Manuel Antonio Varona Papers contain the personal papers of Cuban politican and counterrevolutionary Tony Varona. They include interviews and articles by and about him, as well as books and pamphlets authored by him, a curriculum vitae, correspondence, photographs, speech transcripts, and documents from Frente Revolucionario Cubano.
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This collection is open for research.
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Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please, contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Manuel Antonio (Tony) de Varona Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Languages of the material
- English
- Spanish
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Gift of Manuel A. Varona
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Archivist's note
Minimal Record added by Fernando Espino, December 2013. Updated by Juan A. Villanueva, January 2016. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.
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Name access points
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency (Subject)
- Varona, Manuel Antonio de, 1908-1992 (Subject)