Fidel Castro
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Latinos, Hispanics, Chicanos, Communism, Communists
- Curriculum: Latin American History
Article abstract: Castro led a successful revolutionary struggle against the Cuban dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar in the late 1950’s. The revolutionary leader subsequently implemented Latin America’s third social revolution of the twentieth century and transformed Cuba into the first communist state of the hemisphere in defiance of the United States.
Early Life
Fidel Castro Ruz was born on a large cattle estate near the village of Birán in Cuba’s Oriente Province. Fidel was the third of seven children sired by a prosperous Spanish...
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