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
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will, of course, change. Human society will, of course, continue to develop-in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.
I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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.
We are the rebels of the West, ... And Malaysia is the rebel of the East.
There have been nothing but obstacles and difficulties of all kinds,
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.
We shall always be grateful for that gesture,
to force us to surrender through hunger and illness ... as part of a monstrous, fascist plan.
The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,