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 am talking about three days ... It is inevitable.
Never has the revolution had so much unity, strength and experience as today,
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.
Let the blockade cease! The United States has no right to ask for or expect anything from us while they maintain the blockade.
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.
The plane will be ready to leave Tuesday if the visas are granted,
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.
There was illiteracy, the workers were being expelled from the factories, and the best lands where in the hands of the rich. That's why the revolution triumphed.
There will be no escape for those who want to live like parasites at any price, at any cost, outside the law,
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!
This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.
also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country.
Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common sense of such policies?