
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically 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 reforms were implemented throughout society. Born in Birán, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962. Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fidel Castro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born13 August 1926 (age 99)
- Place of BirthBirán, Cuba
Fidel Castro

- Known ForActing
- Born13 August 1926 (age 99)
- Place of BirthBirán, Cuba

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024

The Queen and the Prime Ministers
2024

The Padilla Affair
2023

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
2023

Rat Pack
2022

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
2022

Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
2022

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021

A History of an Assignment
2021

Becoming Cousteau
2021

537 Votes
2020

I Am Jackie O
2020

Wasp Network
2020

Laboratory Greece
2019

Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
2019

Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
2019

ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
2019

Karl Marx und seine Erben
2018

Another Day of Life
2018

Cuba, un aller et un retour
2018

Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
2018
Nobody
2017
Two Meetings and a Funeral
2017

Cuba and the Cameraman
2017

Angola: The War
2017

Elián
2017

El Che
2017

Historien ska frikänna mig
2016

Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
2016

Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
2016

Assassinating Franco
2016

Laissez-faire
2015

Celia - la más hermosa flor
2015

Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
2015

Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
2013

The Man Who Saved the World
2012

The Mayor
2012

The Day That Lasted 21 Years
2012
Castro in Winter
2012

Ethel
2012

7 Days in Havana
2012

Året var 1962
2012

Palme
2012

Memories of Overdevelopment
2011

Santiago Files
2011
El día más largo
2011

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
2010

Memória Cubana
2010

The Kennedy Detail
2010
Being Fidel Castro
2010

The Inconclusive Independence
2010

Did the Mob Kill JFK?
2009

South of the Border
2009

La Rabbia di Pasolini
2008

Året var 1958
2008
Lejos de la isla
2007

Un Giorno con Fidel
2007

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
2007

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
2007

Oswald's Ghost
2007

The War on Democracy
2007

638 Ways to Kill Castro
2006

Looking for Fidel
2006

Cuba, el valor de una utopía
2006

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
2005

Looking for Fidel
2004

Salvador Allende
2004

Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
2004

Comandante
2003

The Fog of War
2003
Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
2003

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
2003

Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003

Cuban Rafters
2002

Naqoyqatsi
2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
The Cuban Game
2001
Dear Fidel: Marita's Story
2001
Kubánske otázniky
2000

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
1999

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996

Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
1995

8A
1993

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993

JFK
1991
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
1991

Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
1990

The Uncompromising Revolution
1988

American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
1988

Fidel Racconta il Che
1987

The CIA's War Against Cuba
1987

Brascuba
1987

Chile: A Genral Record
1986
Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
1986

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984

Improper Conduct
1984

The Necessary War
1980

On Company Business
1980

Mission Mind Control
1979
CBS Reports: The CIA's Secret Army
1977

My Brother, Fidel
1977

A Grin Without a Cat
1977

Waiting for Fidel
1975

The Society of the Spectacle
1974

General Idi Amin Dada
1974

Cuba and Fidel
1974

And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
1973

Chile, el gran desafío
1973

Venceremos, solidaridad
1973

Compromiso con Chile
1972

El Diálogo de América
1972

I Am a Son of America
1972

The Exploitation of Man by Man
1972

The First Year
1972

Fidel
1971

Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
1971

Topaz
1969

The Hour of the Furnaces
1968

Far from Vietnam
1967

Hello Cubans
1963

Muerte al invasor
1962

¡Cuba Sí!
1961

Island Ablazed
1961

Yanki No!
1960
General Assembly
1960
