Chronology

27/09/1960
  • In the morning he meets with Prime Minister Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland.  
  • At 10 a.m., he attends the UN General Assembly discussion where he hears the speech made by Egyptian President Gamal Adbel Nasser.
  • In the afternoon, he meets with President Nkrumah of Ghana.  
  • He has a one-hour conversation with Jawaharlal Nehru at the Theresa Hotel and gives the Indian leader a bust of Jose Marti, a collection of INRA magazines and a crocodile-skin purse as a present for his daughter, Indira Gandhi.  
  • At 6 p.m. he attends a reception given by the Uruguayan delegation for the Cuban delegation at the Hotel Pierre on Fifth Avenue, in front of New York City`s Central Park.  
  • A t 8 o`clock that evening, he attends a banquet given for Heads of State by Premier Sri Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India.    
  • He meets with the Bulgarian leader, Todor Zhivkov, at the Theresa Hotel.
28/09/1960
  • He has a second meeting with Gamal Adbel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic.  
  • He makes press statements where he declares that he is a friend of the American people, but not a friend of the trust companies and monopolies controlling the economy, and of the Latin American press, and he adds: "Cuba is going to vote in the UN for the independence of Algeria, for the preservation of the independence of the Congo and in support of the Lumumba government, as well as for the entry into this body of the Peoples Republic of China."
  • He departs from New York to return to Havana.  When he arrives in the Cuban capital, he is received with a great welcome by the people.  In the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, a huge welcome ceremony is organized.  He makes his historic speech in which he proposes the creation of the CDRs (Committees for the Defence of the Revolution) while firecrackers go off around him throughout the ceremony.
29/09/1960
  • During a round table on CMQTV, he reports on his recent appearance at the Fifteenth UN General Assembly.  He points out, among other things: "We must not lose our calm.  We know that this is a long struggle.  We must have our hearts and our minds prepared for the fight against a powerful enemy."
02/10/1960
  • Visit to the Peasant Housing Department of INRA at Parcelación Zayas, on the Wajay highway.  
  • Visit to the Menelao Moraí agricultural cooperative on the Santa Fe highway in Mariel.  He urges the workers to increase production, defend the Homeland and read the works of the National Press.
03/10/1960
  • Attends the reception given at the Havana Libre Hotel by the directors of the Sinjuan news agency and the Chinese trade delegation on the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of the proclamation of the Peoples Republic of China.
10/10/1960
  • Closing ceremony at the theatre of the Workers` Palace of the First National Congress for Municipal Boards of Education; in his speech he proposes:  "Every day we are more aware of the fact that a revolution is not just the work of creating, but that a revolution, while it is creating, must defend what it has created and has to fight at the same time as it is creating".   
  • Attends a reception at the Embassy of the United Arab Republic given by the ambassador of that country and its minister of economy, Adbel Mounen Kaissouni, who was visiting Cuba at the time.
13/10/1960
  • At the Presidential Palace, along with President Dr. Osvaldo Dorticós and Rolando Di¬az Aztarai¬n, Minister of the Interior, he signs the laws nationalizing large companies, a total of 382, among which were banks, railroads, department stores, food, textile and clothing warehouses, sugar mills, etc.
14/10/1960
  • At the Presidential Palace, with the members of the Council of Ministers, he signs the Laws for Urban Reform, dealing with apartments and recreational facilities.  .
  • At Jose Marti international Airport, with President Dr. Osvaldo Dorticos, he receives President and Prime Minister Sekou Touré of Guinea, travelling directly from New York where he had been attending the Fifteenth UN General Assembly.  It was the first time an African leader was visiting Cuba.   
  • Attends the reception given by President Dorticós in honour of the distinguished African visitor.
15/10/1960
  • Throws the first ball at the start of the Cuban Baseball Winter Tournament at the Cerro Stadium, accompanied by the president of Guinea and his entourage.  
  • Appears on the television program Ante la Prensa to give details about the recently passed Law 890 nationalizing banks and 382 enterprises. 
16/10/1960
  • At José MartíInternational Airport he bids farewell to departing President and Prime Minister Sekou Touré of Guinea as he leaves for New York.