Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

13-Aug-1926

Cuba

Statesperson

Beginning in 1958, Fidel Castro and his troops embarked on a campaign of guerrilla warfare that led to the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. As the country's new leader, Castro applied the communist domestic policies and established military and economic relations with the Soviet Union which led to strained relations with the United States. Tensions between the United States and Cuba culminated in the 1962 Cecan Missile Crisis. Under Castro, progress was made in health care and education, while maintaining a totalitarian dictatorship in the country and brutally prosecuting or imprisoning anyone who thought he was an enemy of the state.

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"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."

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"How can we help President Obama?"

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"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

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"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."

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"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."

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"I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba."

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"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour."

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"Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism."

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"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

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