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Official passport, República de Cuba — "Pasaporte Oficial"
Object/Artifact
Front cover of a Cuban official passport booklet. Red cover stock (textured leatherette/coated board), foil-blocked in gold: the upper legend "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA"; the centered national coat of arms of Cuba (palm-bearing shield, key between headlands beneath a rising sun, Phrygian-capped staff above, oak branch and laurel wreath); and below, in capitals, "PASAPORTE OFICIAL." Interior pages (bio-data, photograph, validity, visas) not imaged; interior bearer data recorded internally only and redacted from this record.
2025.14.2
Vuelo Espacial Conjunto Cubano-Soviético
Daysi García López collection
2025.14
Gift
MINREX
9/25/1979 - 6/1980
1970s
1980s
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Maker/Issuer: República de Cuba (official passports issued by the state / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MINREX). Bearer affiliated with the Departamento de Orientación Revolucionaria (DOR), Central Committee of the PCC, as a designer. Date: Issued 25 September 1979; valid until June 1980.
Cover blocking — "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA," national coat of arms, "PASAPORTE OFICIAL." Interior bearer data withheld. Internal data retained: issue date 25 Sept 1979; expiry June 1980; geographic validity limited to European countries; bearer role designer at the DOR.
Materials: Coated/textured cover stock over a bound paper booklet; gold foil stamping. Technique: Foil-stamped (blocked) cover; stitched/bound booklet.
Good
Daysi García López
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
issuance
Vuelo Espacial Conjunto Cubano-Soviético
A Cuban pasaporte oficial (official passport — a category distinct from the diplomatic passport, and conventionally red rather than blue), issued 25 September 1979 to a bearer who was a designer at the DOR, the PCC Central Committee's ideological/propaganda department. Two documentary features are notable: a short validity (to June 1980) and an explicit geographic restriction limiting travel to European countries — reflecting the controlled, purpose-specific character of official travel authorizations in this period. The object forms a pair with the bearer's 1982 diplomatic passport (same individual), together documenting official Party-apparatus travel across 1979–1982.