Photograph caption dated April 14, 1980 reads, "About 2,000 protesters gathered in Echo Park yesterday to urge the United States to help the Cubans who have taken refuge in Havana's Peruvian Embassy, seeking asylum in other countries. The fervently anti-Castro crowd, carrying placards with slogans like, "Castro Let My People Go," shouted their support for the 10,000 Cubans who have crowded the embassy for more than a week. Police described the rally as "peaceful."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 34 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Castro, Fidel,--1926-2016--Public opinion Communism--Cuba Anti-communist movements--California--Los Angeles Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Protest movements--California--Los Angeles Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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