URU - 2014 - #028 - DESCRIPTION - MARIO GARCIA INCHÁUSTEGUI, AMBASSADOR OF CUBA (SPECIAL CANCELATION)

Uruguay - 2014 - Tribute to Mario Garcia Incháustegui, Ambassador of Cuba ( Previous / Next )

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FDC not Sent 1 --- 3,50 EUR
FDC not Sent 2 --- 3,50 EUR
FDC Sent on First Day 1 --- 9,00 EUR
FDC Sent on First Day 2 --- 9,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: August 27th, 2014

FDC Type: Official Cover from Post Office
FDC not sent Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]
FDC sent on issue day Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]

Topics:

Issue:

As Main Topic: One could go to the most comprenhensive Personalities, to more precise ones of Diplomatics Personalities or Ambassadors, also Cuban Personalities, and of course the Personality of Mario Garcia Incháustegui in particular too.

Then, surrounding the main topic, could be found the followings: First, Cuba as the nationality of Mario Garcia Incháustegui, however, not only this country are related to him, also the ones in which he was Ambassador could be related to this issue, that are, besides Uruguay, Chile, Japón, and Malasia. He was also Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy in Paraguay, and Permanent Representative of Cuba in United Nations.

As Ambassador in Uruguay he supported Unions in Labour Disputes, and for this reason, or perhaps more precisely using that as the excuse, the Uruguayan President of that time, Benito Nardone, following orders from the CIA of United States, dismissed him in 1961. So, Uruguayan History, Latin American History, and the Intervention of United States in Latin America, could be another Topics that are connected with this Release

Subsequently, he was Representative of the Cuban Government in UN headquarters. In the Debate on the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, he described the Soviet missiles as Defensive and the Naval blockade imposed by the Cabinet Kennedy, as an Act of war. From 1963 to 1968 he Headed the Department of International Organizations in the Ministerio del Comercio Exterior (MINCEX), (Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade) and Represented the Cuban government at numerous International Conferences. From 1969 to 1970 he Represented the Cuban government at the United Nations Office at Geneva.

To end this section, not a fruit of his great work in this case add more Topics to this release, is his tragic death which relate him and this issue with Planes and Transports, and more in particular to Plane Crashes, and Plane Hijacks, as he and his wife Gladys Delgado Ortiz were passengers of the Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 (MH653), that was a Scheduled domestic flight from Penang to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, operated by Malaysian Airline System (MAS), that on the evening of 4 December 1977, the Boeing 737-200 Aircraft flying the service Crashed at Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, while purportedly being diverted by Hijackers to Singapore, being the first fatal air crash for Malaysia Airlines (as this Airline is now known), with all 93 passengers and 7 crew killed. The flight was apparently hijacked as soon as it reached cruise altitude. The circumstances in which the hijacking and subsequent crash occurred remain unsolved.

Now, regarding the desing of the Special Cancelation: Besides reinforcing the Personality of Mario Garcia Incháustegui, as a Portrait of him with the legend "Embajador de Cuba", that means "Cuban Ambassador", it is almost all of the design of the Cancelation, it also reinfornce the Topics: Cuba, Diplomatics, and Ambassadors, and adds the Topics: Lenses, Glasses, and Baldness.

Finally, in a more symbolic way: I think that Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Anti-Imperialism, are the Topics better represented in this Release.  

Stamps selection:

The stamps selected were: A stamp released on October 3rd of 2006 about the 40 Years of the Congress of Union Unification, and a stamp issued on October 5th of 2011 commemorating the 90 Years of the Diplomatic Relationship between Uruguay and Japan.
 
The reason for selecting these stamps was: quite different for each one. For the first, I wanted to focus on Mario Garcia Incháustegui relationship with Uruguay, and, as he was dismissed for supporting the Unions, I thought that the stamp of the 40 Years of the Congress of Union Unification was a good one to illustrate his work here.

Then, for the second stamp, I choose with a completely different view. I looked for some stamp related with Mario Garcia Incháustegui work outside Uruguay, and the one of the 90 Years of the Diplomatic Relationship between Uruguay and Japan, seems well suited with this veiw, because is a Diplomatic Relationship related Stamp, and also it is about Japan, the country in which he was the Cuban Ambassador, when he passed away in the tragic Plane Crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 (MH653) .

The other merit of the stamp selected, was that includes a nice an popular Topic, that is the World Heritage Sites, that are the places (such as a forest, mountain, lake, island, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that are listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as of special cultural or physical significance, as it includes the Site 661 of his list, the Himeji-jo Castle

The selection of this stamps, add the following topics: The first, besides reinforcing Unions Topic, also adds Flags, Manifestations, 40th Anniversary, Photograpy, and perhaps more precisely Old Photography.

The second one, besides reinforcing Diplomatic Relationship and Japan Topic, also includes, as already mentioned, the Himeji-jo Castle, and with it the Site 661 of the World Heritage Sites, and also is related with the topics: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and even: United Nations, Architecture, Buildings, Castles, 17th-century Japanese Castle architecture, History, Japan History, 17th-century History.

Also the stamp and it Label, add the Topics: Trees, Flowers, Vegetables by the beautiful flowered Tree that appears outside the Castle Walls, and also a Yukimi, or Toro, Stone Lattern. The Lattern shown in the Label is placed in the only Japanese Garden of Montevideo, builded on 2001, and located at the surroundings of the Musseum "Juan Manuel Blanes". This Lattern is a gift of the Citizens of Nakatsugawa, a City located in the Tōnō Region of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, that was founded on April 1st, 1952.

A last Topic that could be added is: 90th Anniversary.

If you consider that there are another topics in this stamp, that were not spot in this review, you are encouraged to telling me about them, so please do not hesitate to post a comment. I would appreciate your help very much.