Fidel Castro

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.

He never did. He is still in power today. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was meant to take him out, but Kennedy failed to send air support.

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Dictatorship, socialism, and communism.

Fadel Castro was the Cuban dictator

by becoming very sick but his heir still keeps it

Fidel Castro became leader of Cuba, a few years after helping to dispose of the previous dictator Batista.
Cuba

Like Iraq, the US supported Castro in the beginning.

The Communist Party of Cuba is the ruling party in the Republic of Cuba. In Cuba, people elect members of the National Assembly of People's Power which then chooses a President who exercises executive power. Every member of the National Assembly is a member of the CPC.

Since 1992 the Cuban government has allowed other parties to exist, but it does not allow them, or the ruling Communist party, to campaign.

It's not the same thing calling the devil to see him coming.

Castro overthrew the existing regime so that he could become the dictator.

No, just the opposite. The US tried to prevent Castro from defeating Batista, because Batista was friendly toward the US and Castro was a Communist. The US never wanted Castro to take over and this can be seen by the later "Bay of Pigs" invasion that the US sponsored but failed to back up. There are accounts that the US through the CIA planned some elaborate schemes to kill Castro after he took over.