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Jul 11, 2024 · Fidel Castro, Cuban political leader (1959–2008) who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America. He served as premier until 1976 and then as president of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers.
Nov 9, 2009 · Fidel Castro: Early Years . Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, a small town in eastern Cuba. His father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to the island during the ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Fidel Castro orchestrated the Cuban Revolution and was the head of Cuba's government until 2008.
Nov 26, 2016 · Fidel Castro had held on to power longer than any other living national leader except Queen Elizabeth II. He became a towering international figure whose importance in the 20th century far ...
Nov 26, 2016 · Cuba's former president Fidel Castro, one of the world's longest-serving and most iconic leaders, has died aged 90. His younger brother and successor as president Raul Castro announced the news on ...
Jul 21, 2019 · Castro Attacks the Moncada Barracks . On the morning of July 26, 1953, Castro, his brother Raúl, and a group of about 160 armed men attacked the second-largest military base in Cuba—the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Confronted with hundreds of trained soldiers at the base, there was little chance that the attack could have succeeded.
Nov 26, 2016 · Fidel Castro was born in 1926 in Cuba. As a young man he strongly disagreed with the way Cuba was ruled, and thought the country had many problems.
Nov 26, 2016 · Fidel Castro, the fiery communist politician and Cuban revolutionary who led his country for almost half a century, has died, the Associated Press reported.His health had been deteriorating since ...
Nov 26, 2016 · Fidel Castro, who led his bearded rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, has died at age 90.
