Fidel Castro was the Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then served as President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers from 1976 to 2008. This makes a total of almost 49 years in power.

Fidel Castro stood up for various ideologies and causes. He fought for Cuban independence from colonialism and imperialism, promoting social justice and equality, and advocating for the overthrow of capitalist systems. He also championed anti-imperialist movements and supported revolutionaries around the world who were fighting against oppression and exploitation.

Fidel Castro was not a professional athlete. He was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as the Prime Minister and later the President of Cuba. Instead of playing games, Castro was known for his involvement in leading the Cuban Revolution and shaping the policies of the Cuban government.

Fidel Castro was of mixed heritage. Although his father was of Spanish and Basque descent, his mother had Afro-Cuban and Canarian ancestry. Therefore, Castro would not be considered white in terms of his racial background.

Fidel Castro held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and then became the President of the Council of State and the President of the Council of Ministers from 1976 to 2008. After his retirement in 2008, his brother Raul Castro succeeded him as the leader of Cuba.

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Blame it on Fidel was created on 2006-09-10.

Batista served two different terms as president of Cuba. First from 1940 to 1944, he was preceded by Frederico Laredo Bru. His second term was from 1952 to 1959 and he ousted Carlos Prios Socarras.

Dictatorship.he wants everything to belong to him

Fulgencio Batista rose to power in a coup, and cultivated the friendship of Meyer Lansky, a mobster from America. Under him, the ownership of land in Cuba shifted to non-Cubans, particularly Lansky's "friends" in the casino business. Most of the farm land was under the control of American corporations interested in cheap sugar. Batista was corrupt and corporate greed fed that corruption.

So, at least in the opinion of most historians, the answer is no. Batista was not a good ruler for Cuba.

Cuba has the highest percentage of literacy and educated people, an enormous ammount of highly trained professionals, and a shortage of many key items due to the US's illegal embargo (the UN declared a while back the embargo goes against international laws of self-sovereignty interference)

He will be 86 on August 14.

Yes... Raul Castro was Fidel's younger brother... They also had another brother, Ramon, and he was the oldest Castro brother.

He ended up providing health care for the elderly. Fidel Castro had quite a few accomplishments including making Cuba the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere.

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To test the resolve of the young President Kennedy and also to find out how good the US spy satellites were.

The reason he approved is because Castro believed that another U.S. attack was immenent so he wanted the missiles as a defensive manuever

They were cousins on his mothers side. He knows him all his life. Alberto was 6 years older than Che. In 1952, 23-year-old medical student Ernesto and his 29- year-old biochemist pal Alberto (Rodrigo de la Serna, an Argentine cousin of Guevara's) left their comfortable middle-class Buenos Aires homes for a motorcycle jaunt around the continent.

Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were leaders in the Cuban Revolution, which later became a communist country. Che headed the attempts to bring communism to parts of South America. He was killed by government forces in Bolivia. Che remains an honored figure in Cuba.

An alliance with Russia would help prevent America from invading or interfering with his communist dictatorship over Cuba.

President Kennedy admitted to lack of missile gap unlike Eisenhower. He said that the US was way ahead of the Soviets in the developing missiles. This made Khrushchev (The Soviet leader) look bad. And this angers Cuba a lot especially, after our failed attempt with the Bay of Pigs. Castro starts to buddy up with the Soviets a lot more. Khrushchev doesn't want to see the US take Cuba down. So he offers to arm Castro with weapons. The US had the Soviet Union surrounded with missile sites and the Soviets wanted at least one site near the US. If they could get Cuba they would have their "one place". A U2 planes discovered installation sites being built in Cuba by the soviets. Kennedy called together the National Security Council, DOD, etc. to discuss what to do with this. We came up with three options. 1)Invade Cuba-Bay of pigs was a failure. 2) Air Strike- were afraid if we did do that ,t hey would shoot our planes3) Leave it alone. No one was really satisfied with those three option so we decided to Quarantine AKA Blockade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared everyone to death; we were on the verge of nuclear war. In 1963 the US and the Soviet Union Signed a nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned the testing of atomic weapons. A hotline was also set up between Moscow and Washington D.C.

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Fidel Castro was born in Biran, Oriente Province, Cuba at his family's sugar plantation on 13 August 1926.