Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz; born August 13, 1926), commonly known as Fidel Castro, is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 August 1926
CityBiran, Cuba
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Life has its ups and downs, you can fall down, but you can also get up. I have friends, my daughters and a very great spirit of struggle which is comforting in finding another opportunity. My family has helped me a lot along this road; now I wake up every morning and have the same ambitions that I had a while back.
to force us to surrender through hunger and illness ... as part of a monstrous, fascist plan.
I think that it has moved the world. It's something extraordinary, something historic.
I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.
I am going to tell you what I think about this famous commission.
I am talking about three days ... It is inevitable.
We can do it better and take on the major leagues. ... For each player that leaves, 10 better ones arise,
There is no country in the world where the empire's mercenaries enjoy the privileges they do in Cuba.
Humanity will preserve an emotional memory of the tireless work of His Holiness John Paul II in favor of peace, justice and solidarity among all people,
If all roads lead to Rome, we can only wish for thousands of roads to lead to Revolutionary Rome!
Forty-eight hours have passed and we have received no response to our offer. We will wait patiently,
He is very much a fool. He doesn't know who the Cuban baseball players are, or that they are Olympic and world champions. If he knew, he would know something about this country's government.
I was asked by many citizens whether I was going to respond, ... We are all going to respond!