Raquel La Villa Papers

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Raquel La Villa Papers

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  • circa 1961-1997 (Creation)

Extent

9 Boxes

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The papers document activities of Raquel La Villa. The papers consist of correspondence, documents, scrapbooks documenting visits to Poland where she met with Lech Walesa and Hungary, clippings, publications of IFEDEC and PDC, memorabilia and pamphlets published by Partido Demócrata Cristiano.

Those documents provide information about the history of the organizations who fought to rescue Cuba from the communist government.

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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@mimi.edu for more information.

Preferred citation: Raquel La Villa Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.

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  • Spanish

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Gift of Cecilia la Villa, 2010.

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Archivist's note

The collection-level record created by Beata Bergen, August 2010. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.

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