Fidel’s visit to Vietnam

Cuba recalls the historic moment, fifty years ago

Fidel in Hanoi with Lê Duẩn, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam

     Cuban news this week has featured commentaries on Fidel’s historic visit to Vietnam in September 1973, four years after the death of Ho Chi Minh and two years before the final triumph of the Vietnamese Revolution for sovereignty and national reunification.  The visit included a secret visit to territory under the control of the National Liberation Front and the Provisional Government of South Vietnam, making Fidel the first foreign head of state to visit said territory.