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
It was obvious that they underestimated our people who have not rested a single day in fighting for something absolutely just,
They are guilty with their Cuban Adjustment Act and with their broadcasts and exhortations to leave illegally ... of the dozens, maybe hundreds of people, who die in those attempts, ... They don't give them visas. Then they receive them as heroes.
We shall always be grateful for that gesture,
The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,
There are even irresponsible families who sell their daughters' bodies and insensitive neighbors who think this is the most natural thing in the world ... until tragedy and disease strike,
We have just received 12 locomotives from China. They are simply the best our country has received. They are the most modern, most efficient and of best value.
we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.
What has the former football star done to be looking so good?
We have no objections at all to the three officials visiting us, to know their assessment and exchange views on these matters, ... We won't close the door.
We have no objection at all that the three US officials visit us to give their assessments and hold an exchange on these matters,
Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common sense of such policies?
to turn it into a body which is truly representative of the interest of all the peoples of the world.
We are not here to say goodbye to Che and his comrades. We are here to welcome them. I see Che and his men as a battalion of invincible combatants, who have come to fight alongside us and to write new pages of history and of glory.
We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... This is not a demonstration against the United States and much less against the American people.