Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, Cuba. His father was Ángel Castro, who was a sugar plantation owner. His mother was Lina Ruz Gonzalez, whom Castro’s father had an affair with while she was a maid to Ángel’s first wife. He had seven brothers and sisters, one of which would become Castro’s future chief associate. Castro attended many different schools as a child, such as the Roman Catholic Boarding School located in Santiago, Cuba, and the Catholic high school in Havana. During his high school career, Castro was very athletic to the point of taking the position of pitcher on a baseball team. In his college career he attended the School of Law of the University of Havana, in 1945, where entered the difficult world …show more content…
But to the people of Cuba’s dismay, Castro may not have been their solution from dictatorship after all. Shortly after Castro was appointed as prime minister, he changed and created many laws, such as the First Agrarian Reform Law. This law “limited the size of land holdings and forbade foreign property ownership.” Basically, Castro took the freedom of land ownership away from the people of Cuba. I guess you could say he was falling more and more towards dictatorship. Castro believed mainly in socialism, which focuses attention fully on the whole and not the individual, implying that everyone gets the same amount of materials or even money, no matter who works the hardest. He also believed in nationalism, in which the dictionary definition is “devotion to the interests of one’s nation.” During Castro’s “reign” the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. Basically, the Soviet Union was like the main supplier of weapons and missiles for Cuba. So the Cuban Missile Crisis begun in an attempt to overthrow Castro, with one-thousand Cuban exiles all containing weapons that had the American stamp of approval. Let’s just say that did not exactly go over well with Fidel Castro. To guard Cuba from further attacks from the United States, the Soviet Union trained their own missiles on to the United States. Any further and the world would have experienced the first nuclear war. But, thankfully, after much talk and negotiation between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and United States President John F. Kennedy, they both agreed to stop the threat of missiles over America. But for a price, the United States would not attack Cuba again. The result - a mortified Castro, who pouted about not being included in the secret conversations between the two world leaders. Later in time, after the humiliation had worn off Castro got back to work. He established many great things, such as, opening ten-thousand schools, which brought the