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 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 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.
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.
I know that Venezuela is living moments of great expectation and hope. I want to share those hopes with the people of Venezuela.
On behalf of the children, of all the companions there, he sends a special greeting to all our people,
not only as a friend, but also as a father.
If Mohammed can't go to the mountain, the mountain will go to Mohammed,
I live and perceive again the details as if everything were happening at this moment,
It was obvious that they underestimated our people who have not rested a single day in fighting for something absolutely just,
That's a hard lesson for those whose false pride and erroneous concepts have driven them not to respond, even late, to our offer,
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.
They have said that we want to move Cardenas (where Elian lived in Cuba) to the United States,
We will wait as many days as necessary.