Fidel Castro

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.

My opinion

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.

jan. 1, 1958

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

Yes, Fidel Castro has 9 kids.

Fidel was a lawyer. In 1952 Fidel Castro became a candidate for Congress for the Cuban People's Party and he was the favorite for the next election. But General Fulgencio Batista, with the support of the armed forces, took control of the country. Castro with 123 men and women attacked the Moncada Army Barracks. He was arrested was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He was released after two years. Castro left for Mexico where he began to plan another attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.

After building up a stock of guns and ammunition, Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida, and eighty other rebels arrived in Cuba in 1956. This group became known as the July 26 Movement and they made their base in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. As the history shows he did not used the military but instead he used revolutionaries. He came in power on the 1th of January 1959.

They were trying to change systems.

Fidel Castro is indrectly or directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Cuba. He could even be held responsible for more if you include the people who died during Cuba's involvement in international conflicts in Africa and other Latin American nations. Castro allowed many Cubans to be sent to firing squads with little or no proof of them having done anything wrong. He is the leader of a government that is intolerant and gives people very little freedom at all. He refuses to acknowledge the widespread poverty and racism that cause ordinary Cubans to suffer. He is the only leader in the Western world that abolished Christmas as a national holiday at one time. That in itself should tell you something...

The official goal was to restore the constitution and bring justice to Cuba, latter Castro became a socialist and betrayed those ideals, appointing himself dictator.

Yes.

the us

He was sentenced to 15 years but he was released in 2 years.

Because to many people can't get along in the United States and Cuba so if your from Cuba, you can get a passport to the United States if one of your family members lives in the U.S.

Castro graduated from the University of Havana's Law School in 1950.

no. he has since stepped down, and his brother has taken over.