Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (/ˈkæstroʊ/ KASS-troh, Latin American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈxandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban...
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Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart (1 September 1949 – 1 February 2018) was a Cuban nuclear physicist and government official. Frequently known by the diminutive...
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(CIA) made numerous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. There were also attempts by Cuban exiles, sometimes in cooperation with...
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2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. One of the military leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the minister of the Armed Forces...
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State, Fidel Castro died of natural causes in his sleep at 22:29 (CST) on the evening of 25 November 2016, at the age of 90. His brother, Raúl Castro, who...
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Cuban Revolution (redirect from Fidel Castro's revolution)
was Fidel Castro, then a novice attorney who attempted to contest the coup through Cuba's judiciary. Once these efforts proved fruitless, Fidel Castro and...
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During his life, Fidel Castro had a fascination with dairy products that has been described as an obsession. Due to this, he tried to develop the Cuban...
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Fidelismo (redirect from Politics of Fidel Castro)
Fidelismo ("Fidelism" in English), otherwise known as Castroism, consists of the personal beliefs of Fidel Castro, which were often anti-imperialist,...
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political career of Fidel Castro saw Cuba undergo significant economic, political, and social changes. In the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and an associated...
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Fidel and Raúl Castro and a key figure of the early days of the Cuban Revolution. Ramón, the eldest of the Castro brothers, the son of Ángel Castro,...
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three brothers — Ramón, Fidel, and Raúl — and three sisters — Angelita, Emma, and Agustina. Lina Ruz González was Ángel Castro's cook; he was married to...
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farmer and businessman who was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel, Raúl and Ramón Castro. Ángel Castro was born in Láncara, in a small fieldstone house typical...
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Family Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency) (section Mafia involvement in assassination attempts on Fidel Castro)
two articles on CIA-backed assassination attempts on Cuban dictator Fidel Castro Physical surveillance of Michael Getler, then a Washington Post reporter...
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Guevara's political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht...
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major figures of the Cuban Revolution, he was considered second only to Fidel Castro among the revolutionary leadership. The son of Spanish anarchists, Cienfuegos...
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225. Fidel Castro was the party's First Secretary (or leader) since its inception while Raúl Castro was the Second Secretary. Upon Fidel Castro's 2008...
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Bay of Pigs Invasion (category Fidel Castro)
Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely and directly financed by the U.S. government...
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Batista was overthrown following the Cuban Revolution, his successor Fidel Castro banned U.S. investment in the country, putting an end to the Mafia's...
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Ignacio Ramonet (section Fidel Castro)
Fidel Castro: biografía a dos voces (Spanish: Fidel Castro: Biography with Two Voices) also titled Cien horas con Fidel (One Hundred Hours with Fidel)...
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as the Special Period. In 2008, Fidel Castro retired after 49 years; Raúl Castro was elected his successor. Raúl Castro retired as president in 2018 and...
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the site of an armed attack by a small group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. That day a simultaneous attack was carried out on the Carlos M. de Cespedes...
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In 1953, beginning their first attack against the Batista government, Fidel Castro gathered 160 fighters and planned a multi-pronged attack on two military...
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resistance against his regime. During this time, revolutionary leaders Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, founders of the July 26th Movement began a resistance...
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religious views of Fidel Castro are a matter of public interest. According to The Washington Post, former president of Cuba Fidel Castro's letters from prison...
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revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the...
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Roselli was born Filippo Sacco on July 4, 1905, in Esperia, Lazio, Italy...
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the dictator Fulgencio Batista by the 26th of July Movement, led by Fidel Castro, during the 1953–1959 Cuban Revolution. The new government aligned with...
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Alina Fernández (category Fidel Castro family)
March 1956) is a Cuban anti-communist activist. She is the daughter of Fidel Castro and Natalia Revuelta Clews. She is one of the best-known Cuban critics...
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Fidel Castro (1926–2016) was a communist revolutionary leader of Cuba. Fidel Castro may also refer to: Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart (1949–2018), Cuban nuclear...
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Eduardo Chibás (section Comparisons to Fidel Castro)
sepulcher, prune flowers left by devotees, and sweep the surrounding area." Fidel Castro had a statue erected of the leader in Santiago de Cuba. A nine-point...
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