...Delaware who supports the oil-exporting country's President Hugo Chávez is about as easy as finding a Cuban in Miami who admires Fidel Castro. Most of them share the sentiment expressed by Wilmington resident Jaidy NuÅez, who left her native Venezuela in...
...Tom Feeney and Ric Keller, two birds of a feather who may get booted out of Congress together? The thought is stunning. Only Fidel Castro has a more secure political gig than an incumbent Republican in Central Florida. But both their races are tossups...
...Ike affected nearly all of Cuba's territory Sep 7-9, 10 days after Hurricane Gustav battered the western part of the island. Fidel Castro's latest commentary, like other recent commentaries he has written, focussed on the economic situation in Cuba,...
...conflict with revolution and social justice. In many ways, Havana Nocturne is the story of two men—Meyer Lansky and Fidel Castro. Ironically, they are as much alike as they are dissimilar. The son of a working-class Jewish family, Lansky rises through...
Background
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban revolutionary leader who served as the country's 22nd president and led the country from January 1959 until his retirement in February 2008. Castro began his political life with nationalist critiques of Batista, and of United States political and corporate influence in Cuba. He gained an ardent, but limited, following and also drew the attention of the authorities. He eventually led the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, after which he was captured, tried, incarcerated and later released. He then traveled to Mexico to organize and train for the guerrilla invasion of Cuba that took place in December 1956.
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