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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (/ ˈ k æ s t r oʊ / KASS-troh, Latin American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈxandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
According to the CIA documents, the so-called Family Jewels that were declassified in 2007, one assassination attempt on Fidel Castro prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion involved noted American mobsters John Roselli, Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. At least some of the CIA assassination attempts on Castro were given the CIA project name ZRRIFLE.
Cremation date. 26 November 2016. Interment date. 4 December 2016. Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Council of State, Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 ( CST) on the evening of 25 November 2016, at the age of 90. His brother, the then-President of the State Council and then-First Secretary ...
Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart (1 September 1949 – 1 February 2018) was a Cuban nuclear physicist and government official. Frequently known by the diminutive Fidelito (little Fidel), [1] he was the eldest son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his first wife, Mirta Díaz-Balart .
Religious views of Fidel Castro. The religious views of Fidel Castro are a matter of public interest. According to The Washington Post, former president of Cuba Fidel Castro 's letters from prison suggest that he "was a man of unusual spiritual depth – and a fervent believer in God." [1] Writing to the father of a fallen comrade, Castro writes:
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Politics of Cuba. Fidel Castro proclaimed himself to be "a socialist, and Marxist–Leninist ". [1] [2] As a Marxist–Leninist, Castro believed strongly in converting Cuba, and the wider world, from a capitalist system in which individuals own the means of production into a socialist system in which the means of production are owned by the ...
— Fidel Castro's speech to the Movement just before the Moncada Attack, 1953. Castro stockpiled weapons for a planned attack on the Moncada Barracks, a military garrison outside Santiago de Cuba, Oriente. Castro's militants intended to dress in army uniforms and arrive at the base on July 25, the festival of St James, when many officers would be away. The rebels would seize control, raid the ...