Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro was popular among the Cubans because of the excesses of the corrupt Batista regime. However, his Communist collectivist policies made him a dangerous ally of the USSR in the Americas.

Fidel Castro was popular among the Cubans because of the excesses of the corrupt Batista regime. However, his Communist collectivist policies made him a dangerous ally of the USSR in the Americas.

Fidel Castro built a socialist army loyal to him that latter became the official army of Cuba, he also created a secret police, the DGI (direccion general de inteligencia) that was responsible for the arrest and execution of many dissidents and still exists to this day.

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Fidel Castro did ban Christmas for several years but later reinstated it as a national holiday upon the Pope visiting Cuba.

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His father Ángel Castro y Argiz was from Spain who came to Biran, Cuba to grow sugar cane. He was born out of wedlock. His mother was Lina Ruz González. He grew in the sugar cane plantation and became a lawyer.

Castro announced that the government will issue a pass to its citizens to board a ship from Mariel to Florida. Instead of boarding the ship with law abiding citizens, he boarded criminals and shipped them to the US. For the rest, it has been difficult to obtain a pass. He wants the law abiding at home.

Eisenhower halted exports to Cuba.

Without support from the former Soviet Union, Cuba faces massive economic difficulties, compounded by its centralized control and aftermarket orientation. Some series of reforms to help Cuba make the necessary transition to capitalism has been brought forward without abandoning the education and health care advances Castro's regime has achieved. It is the case, Cuba would be opening vote in some years.

I believe he was an atheist, at least officially.

Yes he did

Cuba is a republic, so it does not have a king or queen.

Fiedel Castro proposed presenting a motion in the United Nations against the United States.

No, Fidel Castro remained in control of Cuba until he stepped down in 2008

Fidel Alejandro Castro, regardless of our political opinions. Undoubtedly will be remembered as a warlord dictator

Armando Lago, a Cuban exile and economist who made a personal quest of counting the people who lost their lives as a direct consequence of Castro, estimates the total at well over 100,000. His latest update on Dec. 31 2007 showed 4,074 people were killed by Castro's firing squads and 1,334 were the victims of extrajudicial killings. Another 16,282 died in combat, fighting both for and against Castro, both in Cuba and in places abroad like Angola. The bulk of the other deaths will likely never be proven: he used a a mathematical formula based on U.S. Coast Guard and other figures to estimate that 77,833 would-be migrants drowned at sea.

Fidel Castro planned to create a communist government in Cuba, and it seemed dangerous having a country with communist ties that close to the continental US. This was soon proved true in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962.

They both had and exercised absolute control over their government and their people.

Castro collectivized agriculture and cut off diplomatic relations with the United States. - *Apex.

well he's said to have a prodigous memory, reciting speeches and quoting long passages from books. Also any political leader who manages to rule as a dictator, but still hold the love of his people, atleast some of them to a certain extent, must have a great intuitive sense of how to balance his power. So if I were to guess I would place him 120-150. Closer than that I couldn't tell you

He proposed presenting a motion in the United Nations against the United States.

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.

He died on November 25, 2016. He was 90 years old. He had an intestinal problem.

I have heard directly from a

former US Army Special Forces operative that we DID aid Castro in the early days as Batista was less and less willing to yield to US pressure. Of course Castro soon turned on us and the rest is well, history...