Fidel Castro

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Castro did not attend Harvard. Castro did have the knowledge to go to such a university as he has a law degree from the University of Havana and practiced law prior to the Cuban Revolution. He was a respected lawyer who became disenchanted with politics in Cuba thus becoming a revolutionary. Castro was not anti-US from the start and did not join the Communist Party until 1962, three years after his taking control of Cuba.

Cuba, although changing slightly in more recent times, remains a Communist dicatatorship. The highest levels of the leadership decide what laws they wish enacted and enforced and do so without any input of its governed citizens.

According to the few things given in his spoken autobiography, My Life (written by Ignacio Ramonet), Fidel Castro's personal interests include international history and reading (all genres). He is apparently very intrigued by such historic people as Napoleon Bonaparte, Hannibal, and even George Washington, to name a few. As far as reading goes, he reads an awful lot. Fiction, non-fiction, political essays... the list goes on. While he tends to favor French and Spanish authors, he reads many of the classics regardless of the author's nationality.

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.

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.

Yes, In 1980 he opened the gates in cuba so that 125 thousand Cubans who wanted to leave could do so. But he also brought along prisoners from his jails which was about 25 thousand of them.

He sold American land, offered an inadequate compensation to the United State Government, and among other things, abuse of human rights have been observed.

Fidel Castro speaks Spanish and has a rudimentary knowledge of English.

Castro has been the leader of Cuba for many years. He recently stepped down as supreme ruler.

He lives on a big property in western Havana called Punto Cero, there are a number of houses on this property where it is believed other members of his extended family also live. It is just south of an outer suburb of Havana called Alameda de Siboney. While it's in no way as glamorous/ostentious as the ex residences of Muammar Gaddfai & Saddam Hussein, it's much more luxurious than the homes of the majority of Cubans. Apart from the massive property itself, the only sign of luxury visible on Google Maps is a swimming pool. It is rumoured that he also has a running track.

Look up "5ta D, Havana Cuba" in Google Maps (5ta D is the name of the road), you will see a string of about 4 or 5 houses on this road (at the end of roads 7ma A & 7ma B. The house with the swimming pool is Fidel's - the rest are his family members'.

Don't go looking for it though when you're in Havana or you'll find yourself in a lot of trouble :) Security around there is understandably quite heavy anyway

== == Castro has been in power since 1959, when he overthrew Batista. He stepped down as Cuba's president in 2008.

Because Fidel Castro turned it into a communist nation. This was against the US's capitalistic ideology and they were currently engaged in The Cold War which was primarily over stopping the spread of Communism (Namely that of The Soviet Union).

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.

Will Castro is a Puerto Rican actor and producer who was born on April 4, 1969. He married Honey Girl and there is no evidence to suggest that the pair got a divorce as of May 2014.

Fidel Castro and his forces overthrew the US friendly government in Cuba. He then declared Cuba a communist state and confiscated US assets. These two acts were seen as unacceptable by the United States, which was in a protracted "Cold" war with the Soviet Union and its Communist satellites and protectorates. Many Cubans, large numbers of the middle and upper middle class, fled Cuba for the United States. The United States then sponsored Cuban forces to return and overthrow Castro's government. The attempt was called "The Bay of Pigs" and was a resounding failure and embarrassment to the US government. To compound the tension the US government later found that the Soviet Union was in the process of installing Nuclear weapons pointing at the mainland United States on Cuba, thus beginning what is known in the US as "The Cuban Missile Crisis". The US blockaded Cuba and demanded that the USSR remove the missiles bringing the US & USSR very close to a nuclear war. The combination of these events, and the political strength of the Cuban exile community in Florida, where most settled, has hampered normalization of relations between the two ever since.

Fidel Castro stepped down Tuesday morning as the president of Cuba after a long illness. The announcement was made in a letter to the nation written by Mr. Castro and published early Tuesday morning on the Web site of Granma, the official publication

Fidel was as hard working man at the sugar cane fields. He became a lawyer and was friendly to everyone. When he became the favorite for the next election, Batista used the military to seize Cuba. Fidel was incarcerated and years later he brought the revolution and he took charge of Cuban. Since then he became crazy and irrational.

While it is true that the majority of Cubans supported Castro in 1959, as time went on a lot of Cubans became disenchanted with Castro's government and policies, but compared to Batista, Castro was gold.

Free education, free medical care, agrarian reform, quenching US imperialism all benefited peoples of Cuba immensely. Before Castro, 67% of Cubans were illiterate. Castro and Che introduced excellent education system and consequently, Cuba has made its people one of the most literate in Latin America.

Health care is better than that in USA for most people, and is absolutely free. Living span of Cubans is greater than that of US Americans.

Agrarian reform distributed land to those who worked it. Before Cuban revolution, land was owned by 1% of population, and billions of dollars were stolen by USA from impoverished Cuban populace. Castro was from wealthy family and his family plantation was also given to peasants.

Human development index jumped from low to one of the highest in the World.

Rights of blacks and mulatto population were equal in new Cuba, at a time when racist segregation in USA was still a harsh reality.

USA tried to strangulate Cuba by economic sanctions, but Europe and Soviet Union help free Cuban republic. But with downfall of Soviet Union, Cuba entered economic crisis.

Castro brought freedom to the oppressed!

The peasants, the poor, the workers, all the people that were fed up with Batista and wanted to see changes in the government's leaders, who were extremely corrupt. The youth of Cuba were among the strongest supporters of Castro's revolution.

Answer this question… In which nation did Fidel Castro establish a communist state with a military revolution in 1959?

== == Born on 13 of August, 1926 - Prime Minister of Cuba from Feb. 1959 to Dec. 1976 First secretary of the Communist Party Came to power as result of Cuban Revolution which Overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Bastita, and soon became Prime Minister of Cuba. After that he felt it would be cool to be crule and rude, so he because like another Hitler. I'm waiting for the day "someone" will be the third Hitler.

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