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
We aren't afraid of anything. It's very difficult to compete against us in any area ... not even in baseball do they want to compete with Cuba.
We are mobilizing precisely to thwart the plans of those who don't want the child to return, ... This is not a demonstration against the United States and much less against the American people.
translate into an act of aggression against Cuba. But we know that at this time that is not the fundamental thinking of the U.S. government.
This battle against nature we will also win,
If we are there it is because many people protested against that ridiculous rejection. We shall fight square and fair, despite the fact that they have stolen some good baseball players from us.
I was asked by many citizens whether I was going to respond, ... We are all going to respond!
I repeat my warmest congratulations and the desire to continue strengthening the existing relations between our two parties, governments and peoples,
We are the rebels of the West, ... And Malaysia is the rebel of the East.
Little Elian will get back his country, his family, his school, his schoolmates, his school desk,
I think only God can punish crimes of such magnitude.
What kind of cosmetic solutions are we going to provide? ... The very modesty of these goals is shameful.
Why is it that criminal policies and absurd blockades that include food and medicines are being added ... with the purpose of annihilating whole populations out of hunger and diseases?
to turn it into a body which is truly representative of the interest of all the peoples of the world.
We are not here to say goodbye to Che and his comrades. We are here to welcome them. I see Che and his men as a battalion of invincible combatants, who have come to fight alongside us and to write new pages of history and of glory.