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Cuba.
Badge of the XVII FIDE Chess Olympiad Havana 1966.
In these Olympics, the Soviet Union won first place and the United States second, achieving this position thanks to the good play of Bobby Fischer at only 14 years old.
On these trips to Cuba, Fischer played with great personalities such as Fidel Castro or Osmany Cienfuegos himself, then Minister of Public Works.
This badge is the Accreditation of Osmany Cienfuegos that he used in the 1966 FIDE Havana Chess Olympiads.
Osmany Cienfuegos Gorriarán (February 4, 1931) is a Cuban architect, politician and military man. Officer of the Rebel Army under the command of Fidel Castro that overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He served as Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba until 2009 and was minister of several portfolios since the 1960s. Cienfuegos is also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power. Older brother of the martyr Camilo Cienfuegos, who died in 1959.
