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Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (5 December 1875 – 21 October 1956) was a Spanish-born Cuban farmer and businessman who was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel, Raúl and Ramón Castro.
His name was Angel María Bautista Castro Argis and he came to live in Birán, a place near Alto Cedro, Marcané, Cueto and Mayarí. All of them part of this province and famous thanks to the Chan Chán, the well- known song by Compay Segundo.
Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (Láncara, Lugo, España, 4 de diciembre de 1875-Birán, Cueto, provincia de Holguín, Cuba, 21 de octubre de 1956) fue un inmigrante español en Cuba, padre de los dirigentes revolucionarios Fidel Castro y Raúl Castro, expresidentes de la República de Cuba.
He was conceived through an extramarital affair between his father, Ángel Castro y Argiz, a well-to-do sugarcane farmer hailing from Spain, and Ángel’s wife’s servant Lina Ruz Gonzáles; the pair wed when Fidel was a teenager.
Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (5 December 1875 – 21 October 1956) was a Spanish-born Cuban farmer and businessman who was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel, Raúl and Ramón Castro.
When Ángel Castro y Argiz was born on 5 December 1875, in Lugo, Galicia, Spain, his father, Manuel de Castro y Núñez, was 22 and his mother, Antonia Argiz y Fernández, was 18. He married María Luisa Argota y Reyes on 25 March 1911, in Birán, Holguín, Cuba.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13th 1926 in Birán, then Cuban province of Oriente. His father Ángel Castro Argiz, the son of poor farmers from Galicia was a landholder and sugar cane tenant. His mother Lina Ruz Gonzalez came from a peasant’s family in Pinar del Rio province.
