Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on January 13, 1926. He was an illegitimate child of Angel Castro y Argiz, an immigrant worker from spain and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel grew up in the mountainous region of Oriente province. As a boy, Fidel worked in the family?s sugar cane fields and, at 6 years old he convinced his parents to send him to school. When Fidel turned 7 years old, Angel Castro married Fidel?s mother so that his son could attend the Colegio La Salle in Santiago de Cuba. After attending the Colegio La Salle, he went to the Colegio Dolores also in Santiago, and then to the Belen High School in Havana. He proved to be an outstanding Athlete in the Belen High School.

In 1945 Fidel entered the University of Havana, and earned a law degree. To further his political ambitions as an aspiring university student leader, Fidel joined one of two political gangster ?action groups,? the Union Insurreccional Revolucionaria (UIR), to break the dominance of a rival group, the Movimiento Socialista Revolucionaria (MSR), over the university. Fidel joined with rival MSR leaders in the Cayo Confites campaign to overthrow the dictator Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo in 1947. The following year, he tired to take a leadership role i

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In February 1959 Castro became premier and head of the government.

In December 1961, he declared himself to be a Marxist-Leninist and changed the revolution toward the Soviet Union and the socialist block. At the end of the summer of 1949 Mirta gave birth to Fidel?s first and only son. He made his speech well known as "History Will Absolve Me" in his defense. The United States Government tried various schemes to assassinate Fidel Castro and continues to economically isolate Cuba. The crisis ended when the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its nuclear weapons from Cuba in exchange for a pledge that the United States would no longer try to overthrow Fidel?s regime. Fidel and Mirta Diaz-Balart were married on October 10, 1948. Trained since 1960, in Guatemala by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supplied with arms by the U. This event is known as ?The Cuban Missile Crisis?. In 1962, Castro released 1,113 captured rebels in exchange for fifty-three million dollars? worth in medicine and equipment, equal to forty-eight thousand dollars a head. Castro organized an armed attack by 165 men on the Moncada Barracks in Oriente province on July of 1953 in hope of sparking a popular uprising. After Batista fled the country, Castro assumed power and established a Communist dictatorship with close ties to the Soviet Union. He executed and imprisoned thousands of political opponents after he assumed power.

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