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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

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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.

  • Known ForActing
  • Born13 August 1926 (age 99)
  • Place of BirthBirán, Cuba
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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The Queen and the Prime Ministers
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The Padilla Affair
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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
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Rat Pack
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The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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A History of an Assignment
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Becoming Cousteau
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537 Votes
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I Am Jackie O
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Wasp Network
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Laboratory Greece
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Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
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Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
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ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
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Karl Marx und seine Erben
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Another Day of Life
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Cuba, un aller et un retour
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Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
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Nobody
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Two Meetings and a Funeral
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Cuba and the Cameraman
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Angola: The War
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Elián
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El Che
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Historien ska frikänna mig
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2016
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Franco and Fidel: A Strange Friendship
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Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
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Assassinating Franco
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2016
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Laissez-faire
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Celia - la más hermosa flor
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Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
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2013
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The Man Who Saved the World
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The Mayor
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The Day That Lasted 21 Years
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Castro in Winter
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Ethel
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7 Days in Havana
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Året var 1962
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Palme
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Memories of Overdevelopment
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Santiago Files
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El día más largo
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2011
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CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
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2010
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Memória Cubana
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The Kennedy Detail
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Being Fidel Castro
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The Inconclusive Independence
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Did the Mob Kill JFK?
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South of the Border
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La Rabbia di Pasolini
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Året var 1958
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Lejos de la isla
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Un Giorno con Fidel
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
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Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
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Oswald's Ghost
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The War on Democracy
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638 Ways to Kill Castro
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Looking for Fidel
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Cuba, el valor de una utopía
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
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Looking for Fidel
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Salvador Allende
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Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
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Comandante
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The Fog of War
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Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
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Cuban Rafters
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Naqoyqatsi
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
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The Cuban Game
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Dear Fidel: Marita's Story
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Kubánske otázniky
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The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
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Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
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Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
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JFK
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Portrait of Castro's Cuba
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Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
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The Uncompromising Revolution
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American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
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Fidel Racconta il Che
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The CIA's War Against Cuba
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Brascuba
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Chile: A Genral Record
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Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
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1986
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
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Improper Conduct
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The Necessary War
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1980
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On Company Business
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Mission Mind Control
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1979
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CBS Reports: The CIA's Secret Army
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My Brother, Fidel
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A Grin Without a Cat
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Waiting for Fidel
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The Society of the Spectacle
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General Idi Amin Dada
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Cuba and Fidel
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And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
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Chile, el gran desafío
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Venceremos, solidaridad
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Compromiso con Chile
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El Diálogo de América
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I Am a Son of America
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The Exploitation of Man by Man
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The First Year
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Fidel
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Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
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Topaz
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1969
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The Hour of the Furnaces
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1968
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Far from Vietnam
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1967
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Hello Cubans
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Muerte al invasor
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1962
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¡Cuba Sí!
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1961
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Island Ablazed
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1961
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Yanki No!
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1960
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General Assembly
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1960
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Cuban Rebel Girls
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1959