“It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there can be no offense.”

— Fidel Castro

Ibid. p. 53
History Will Absolve Me (October 16th, 1953)

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