Fidel Castro was born in 1926 and died on November 25, 2016. He is the former president of Cuba who led his country from 1959 to 2006. His reign as president spanned nearly half a century, making him the longest-serving non-royal leader of any nation in history.
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Born:
13 August 1926
Died:
25 November 2016
Political Party:
Pcc
Other Political Affiliations:
Ppc-O
Alma Mater:
University Of Havana
Allegiance:
Republic Of Cuba
Branch/Service:
Revolutionary Armed Forces
Years Of Service:
1953-2016
Rank:
Comandante En Jefe
Unit:
26Th Of July Movement
Battles/Wars:
Cuban Revolution, Escambray Rebellion, Bay Of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, Machurucuto Incident, Angolan Civil War And More.
We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out. — Fidel Castro
The revolution … is a dictatorship of The exploited against The exploiters. — Fidel Castro
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. — Fidel Castro
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates. — Fidel Castro
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! — Fidel Castro
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses. — Fidel Castro
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power. — Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro
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. — Fidel Castro
I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep. — Fidel Castro
My modest suggestion is that he reflects (on the u.s. role in south africa and cuba’s in angola) and not now try to elaborate theories about cuban politics. — Fidel Castro
U.s. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe. — Fidel Castro
The revenues of Cuban state–run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. — Fidel Castro
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore. — Fidel Castro
Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people. — Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro’s revolutionary career began while he was enrolled at the School of Law of the University of Havana, when he participated in resistance movements in the Dominican Republic and Colombia.
He became active in Cuban politics after graduating in 1950, and he prepared to run for legislative office in the 1952 elections.
Those elections were canceled when Fulgencio Batista forcibly seized power.
Castro began organizing a resistance movement against Cuba’s new dictator, leading several ill-fated attempts against Batista’s forces, such as the assault on Santiago de Cuba and another on Cuba’s eastern coast.
The tide of battle would turn, however: Castro’s guerrilla warfare campaign and his propaganda efforts succeeded in eroding the power of Batista’s military and popular support while also attracting volunteers to the revolutionary cause.
Batista was forced to flee the country in 1959. Shortly after, Castro assumed complete authority over Cuba’s new government.
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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible! — Fidel Castro
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism. — Fidel Castro
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might. — Fidel Castro
Cuba has the cleanest and most–educated prostitutes in the world. — Fidel Castro
To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome. — Fidel Castro
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World. — Fidel Castro
We have the lowest student–teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war–the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world] — Fidel Castro
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace. — Fidel Castro
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet. — Fidel Castro
I wIsh bolIvIa all the love and admIratIon of the world, our Island has remembered the chIldren of the struggle, as you suffered. — Fidel Castro
The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet. — Fidel Castro
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life. — Fidel Castro
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. — Fidel Castro
Inspired my own life. Victory has thousands father but failure always find itself an orphan.––Fidel Castro — Fidel Castro
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life. — Fidel Castro
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. — Fidel Castro
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing. — Fidel Castro
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation. — Fidel Castro
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. — Fidel Castro
Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. — Fidel Castro
My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious. — Fidel Castro
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises. — Fidel Castro
Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear. — Fidel Castro
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. — Fidel Castro