After seven weeks of fruitful work in the United States organizing Cuban emigration, he returned to Mexico City by midday, flying via Nassau. He brought with him the draft of the “Manifesto No. 2 of 26 July Movement to the Cuban People”, dated 10 December in Nassau. It urged the humble Cuban emigrant majority to organize themselves to intervene in the Cuban political scenario and invited them to become an active part of the revolutionary process.
Since he returned to Mexico, he moved to apartment No. 5 in the building of Ramón Guzmán 5, previously rented under the name of Juan Manuel Márquez.
Chronology
He wrote a letter to Arnaldo G. Barrón, Ángel Pérez Vidal, and Pablo Díaz, members of the executive of the 26th of July Patriotic Club in New York, to express his negative impressions of the work carried out there after his departure.
He also wrote a letter to Victoriano Manteiga, the director of La Gaceta newspaper and the President of the 26th of July Patriotic Club of Tampa.
He wrote to comrades Pedro Valdivia, Enrique Hernández, Raúl Romero, Gilberto García, and Rafael López. These five Cuban emigrants had approached him at the end of the Palm Garden event in New York and volunteered to organize the 26th of July Patriotic Club of Union City. He gave them general instructions for the organization of the Club.
He wrote to Luis García Leal and other emigrants residing in Bridgeport to express his gratitude for their enthusiasm, seriousness, and responsibility in the struggle.
In Mexico City, he wrote to María Antonia Figueroa, a teacher in Santiago de Cuba and the provincial treasurer of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente, to tell her about his successful tour of the United States to organize Cuban emigrants, and to request news of the economic section of the Movement in that province.
He wrote a letter to the Cuban emigrant Mario Villamía in New York, redirecting the letter he had sent to the executive of the 26th of July Patriotic Club in New York on 13 November, in which he complained about the poor work of that organization caused by rivalries, and asked them to make up for the time they had lost.
In Mexico City, he drafts a memorandum to Mario Villamía, of the 26th of July Patriotic Club of New York, providing instructions for revolutionary work.
From the capital of Mexico, he wrote to Arnaldo G. Barrón, an executive of the 26th of July Patriotic Club of New York, , informing him that he had sent by mail several documents to the Club.
He wrote a letter to Dr. Julio de Poo, the president of the 26th of July Patriotic Club of Key West. In the letter, he recalled his stay in that city and gave him instructions for the revolutionary work.
He wrote an article entitled “¡Frente a todos!”, which was published in Bohemia magazine on 8 January 1956, once again responding to the attacks he had suffered at the hands of unscrupulous opposition politicians and spokesmen for the Batista regime.
- From prison, he writes a letter to journalist Luis Conte Agüero, in which he courageously denounces the regime's intentions to bribe political prisoners. The letter is published in Bohemia magazine issue of Sunday March 27, 1955 under the title "Letter on amnesty". Fidel's response is clear: "After twenty months we stand firm and whole hearted like the first day. We do not want amnesty at the price of dishonor. We will not suffer such a great humiliations from of ignoble oppressors. We rather spend a thousand years in prison before suffering this humiliation! A thousand years in prison before the sacrifice of decorum! We proclaim it serenely, without fear or hatred. [...] Faced with the embarrassing compromise of today, at the seventy-seven years of the heroic protest, the Titan of Bronze will have in us his spiritual children".
He is taken to the Isle of Pines Prison warden to be reprimanded for his public denunciation and to impose him new measures of confinement. Three days later new measures are applied to his brother Raúl.
With a great headline that reads “Fidel Castro Incommunicado", newspaper La Calle denounces before the national public opinion the decision taken by the warden Isle of Pines prison place Fidel in solitary confinement in retaliation for the letter he wrote to the journalist Luis Conte Agüero which Bohemia magazine published in its March 27 issue.
The newspaper La Calle denounces, under the shocking headline "THEY WANT TO KILL FIDEL", the existence of a dark criminal plot carefully organized by a group of provocateurs closely linked to the regime, to provoke acts of violence and organize attacks against political prisoners and exiles, especially against Fidel Castro, as soon as he is released.
Moment when he leaves the National Penitentiary for Men in the Isle of Pines accompanied by combatants Melba Hernández and Haydeé Santamaría.