CUBA

CUBA.

Conference of Solidarity of the Peoples of Latin America, and portrait of Fabricio Ojeda.
Map of Central and South America.
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 28.07.1967.
Face value: 13 cents of Cuban peso.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 30 x 42 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1318.
- Scott No. 1248.
- StampWorld No. 1319.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1500.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1129.

From July 31 to August 10, 1967, the first Conference of the Latin American Solidarity Organization (Organización Latinoamericana de Solidaridad, OLAS) took place in Havana. Its objectives were to achieve the unity of the revolutionary forces that participated in the struggle to achieve liberation, independence and national sovereignty of the peoples against imperialism. More than 40 countries participated in the Conference, and the term Latinoamérica was used for the first time, in contrast to the pan-Americanism promoted by the United States since the unilateral enunciation of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823.

Fabricio Ojeda (1929-1966) was a Venezuelan journalist, politician, and guerrilla. He fought clandestinely against the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez and in the attempts to overthrow President Rómulo Betancourt and, after their failure, founded a guerrilla front of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, FALN), of which he he was commander. On June 17, 1966 he was arrested by the Information Service of the Armed Forces of Venezuela and imprisoned. On June 21 he was found hanged in his cell and it was assumed that he had committed suicide, but it was always suspected that he had been murdered.