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 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 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.
I repeat my warmest congratulations and the desire to continue strengthening the existing relations between our two parties, governments and peoples,
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
We will wait as many days as necessary.
We will talk and we will help ourselves in a dignified manner in cases of disaster,
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.
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 rude provocations that have been undertaken from its Interests Office in Havana does not, and could not, have any other goal.
It would be a crime not to go to the appeal, ... The passports are ready and of course the airplane is ready.
These doctors could all already be there providing their services,
I send you, the Party, the Government and the Korean people, our most sincere congratulations,
They always advertise it as mixed with something else.
They already turned on the little sign - the cockroaches are brave.