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
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.
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.
Whatever we get will be used there for the martyrs of Katrina, be it one million (dollars), two, three or four. The money will go there without any doubt and with great satisfaction, because it will heighten the moral of our athletes.
What kind of cosmetic solutions are we going to provide? ... The very modesty of these goals is shameful.
We will be there, but I would never have thought I would have to answer that question.
We had to fulfill the promise that we would resist, we would fight and we would win, even if we were left absolutely on our own.
We would never accept it, ... Even if they offered us a billion dollars, we'd refuse it.
there certainly is evidence that both Cuba and Venezuela have been involved in the situation in Bolivia in unhelpful ways.
Why is it that criminal policies and absurd blockades that include food and medicines are being added ... with the purpose of annihilating whole populations out of hunger and diseases?
The government of President Bush knows very well that no government in the world can accept such a perverse insult to its dignity and sovereignty.
translate into an act of aggression against Cuba. But we know that at this time that is not the fundamental thinking of the U.S. government.
You cannot do this without the authorization of the father, ... I sincerely think that this boy is at risk in the hands of desperate people, and the government of the United States should not be running this risk.
It's nonsense, absolute nonsense, that the United States refuses to have a drug interdiction agreement for fear of the raving and ranting of a group of people in Miami, even though we're willing to do it in exchange for nothing,
For every word you have said -- even those I might disagree with -- on behalf of all the Cuban people, Holy Father, I thank you!