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
When I reached the concrete area, about 15 or 20 meters from the first row of chairs, I did not realize that there was a relatively high curb from the pavement to the crowd. My left foot came down into the air, because of the difference in height. The momentum, and the law of gravity discovered some time ago by Newton, caused me, when I took that false step, to plunge forward until I fell, in a fraction of a second, onto the pavement.
What kind of cosmetic solutions are we going to provide? ... The very modesty of these goals is shameful.
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?
We continue to wait patiently for a response. In the meantime, all of you will be taking intensive courses in immunology and also something that I should be doing -- an intensive brush-up course in English.
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.
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.
We will wait as many days as necessary.
We will talk and we will help ourselves in a dignified manner in cases of disaster,
There have been nothing but obstacles and difficulties of all kinds,
We will be there, but I would never have thought I would have to answer that question.