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 revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated... Where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.
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?
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.
Our relations are based on mutual interest and devotion to peace, in the context of cooperation and integration.