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
The U.S. should begin the changes before there can be change in Cuba,
This graduation was just a dream nearly seven years ago, ... Today is proof of the capacity of human beings to reach the most lofty goals.
This battle against nature we will also win,
They should put those signs inside, not outside.
The much publicized dissidence or alleged opposition in Cuba does not exist except in the overheated imagination of the Cuban-American mob and White House and State Department bureaucrats.
Sometimes I have the impression that our debates are unreal. It's as though the United States didn't exist, as though the empire and its hegemony didn't exist.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Thank you for coming to reinforce us in the difficult struggle that we are undergoing today, to preserve the ideas that you fought so hard for.
Thank you Fidel Castro, thank you for existing.
You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing.
These doctors could all already be there providing their services,
I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.
Neo-liberalism and globalization and the way they are being implemented today are tantamount to new and sophisticated forms of plundering,
I am going to tell you what I think about this famous commission.