...Born on August 13th, 1926 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a revolutionary in the making. He was able to take over the Cuban government and transform Cuba into the first communist state in the western hemisphere. Castro led Cuba with a strong fist for a total of 49 years before passing power over to his brother Raul. Through is ruling Castro was a man who sparked different opinions from many different people before passing away on November 25th, 2016. With so many opinions floating around about Fidel Castro we have to wonder who was he really? Castro was born in Biran, Cuba where his father was a hard-working sugar cane farmer and landowner and his mother was a housemaid/cook for sugar industry officials. Castro’s family was considered to be a bourgeois middle class family. He lived not too far from the battlefield where Jose Marti died helped fuel his idea of his historical destiny. As a kid, Castro spent a lot of his time alongside his father’s workers which helped strengthen his empathy towards his country’s poor. Growing up in the violent Oriente Province Castro soon learned the true power of firearms....
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...Fidel Castro was the prime minister and then president of Cuba. He ruled for about 50 years. When Castro showed an interest in politics, so did Fulgencio Batista, who takes over the Cuban government and establishes a military dictatorship. Fidel is well known for the Cuban Revolution, when he overthrew General Fulgencio Batista, and became the new leader of Cuba. Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 in the city of Mayari which is in the northwestern part of Cuba. His Father, Àngel Castro y Argiz was a wealthy planter. Fidel Castro had many siblings including Raul Castro, who is the leader of Cuba today. Fidel was “educated by the Jesuits and studied law at the University of Havana” . He always liked Latin American Revolutionary Politics since he was a child also . Fidel Castro became a lawyer specializing in public-interest and was kind enough to sometimes represent the poor at no cost. In 1952 Castro decided to become a candidate for parliament...
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...In Biran, Cuba’s eastern Oriente Province, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926. The third of six children, Fidel’s brothers are Raul and Ramon and his three sisters; Angela, Emma, and Augustina. His father was a Spanish soldier who arrived to Cuba during the American-Spanish war. In Cuba, he became a wealthy sugar plantation owner who conducted his business with the US. Lina Ruz Gonzalez, Fidel’s mother, was the servant of the house in Alejandro’s previous marriage. Alejandro later married Lina by the time Fidel was 15 years old. For tourists in the late 50s, Cuba was the center of luxury. It was the playground for Americans. However for Cubans, poverty dominated their lives. Both education and health care systems were poor. Living conditions were even worse than any of the...
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...Introduction; Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 near Biran, in the eastern Orient Province of Cuba. He was the third child out of six and had two brothers and three sisters; his father was a wealthy sugar plantation owner, although he is originally from Spain. His mother was a maid to his father’s first wife, Maria Luisa Argota at the time of Fidel’s birth. As his father married his mom at the age of 17 Fidel had his last name changed from “Ruz” to “Castro”. He soon got married in 1984 he married a woman named Mirta Diaz Balart who was from a wealthy home and had one child and named him Fidel and him wedding to Mirta gave him any strong political connections. Paragraph; In 1945 Castro began studying law at the University of Havana admitting...
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...There are many views that people have of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Castro is a figure with opinions on both ends of the spectrum. While he is not worldly popular at this point in his life, he was immensely beneficial to his country. Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba for the past 50 years may not be viewed in the best light, but he did phenomenal things for his people which makes him one of the most undervalued and overlooked political figures. Fidel Castro Ruz was born in Biran, Cuba on August 13, 1926 (Britannica, 2014). Born into a middle class sugar farm owning family, Castro grew up relatively affluent but his origins pointed to anything but a revolutionary career. “I was born into a family of landowners in comfortable circumstances. We were considered rich and treated as such. Everyone lavished attention on me and treated me differently from other children. These other children went barefoot while we wore shoes; they were often hungry, at our house there was always a squabble at the table to get us to eat.” – Fidel Castro (Castro, 2009) Fidel Castro’s family was not Rockefeller rich, but had far more than many other people did in Cuba at the time. Due to this he attended an elite Catholic private school. Castro was very much into politics, while attending the University of Havana he joined a student group that opposed political corruption. He was a member of the Orthodox Part, also known as the Cuban People’s Party (Geyer, 1991). With Fidel Castro’s exceptional public speaking skills...
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...Cuba Cuba, officially named "Republic of Cuba", is the largest island in the Caribbean. The capital of Cuba is Havana, and its population is 10.8 million. The main language used by most cubans is spanish and the currency used there is a Cuban Peso, which is equal to one U.S. Dollar. Cuba is a communist state and its president, since December 1976, is Fidel Castro Ruz. The main objective of this paper is to talk about the economic and political side of Cuba during the reign of Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 in Oriente. The schools that he attended were Catholic and located in Havana. He entered the University of Havana in 1945 and graduated with a law degree in 1950. In 1948 he married Mirta Diaz Balart but they were soon divorced in 1954. His son Fidel Castro Diaz Balart became the head of Cuba's atomic energy commision. Castro was a very good vocalist and he brought himself national prominence by leading an attack on Moncada army barracks. Due to this attack he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which only lasted for 2 years. After being in exhile in Mexico, Castro returned with 81 others, including Che Guevera, to Cuba and launched a successful guerrilla war. Castro became a strong leader and many other countries begun to fear him. In Cuba the state is the head of the economy and controls almost all trade between foreign countries. Many reforms have been undertaken by the government so that the labor incentives would...
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...Fidel Castro’s Influence on the Cuban Revolution, 1953-1959 The year was 1953 and Fidel Castro was a dashing and daring reformer that was determined to make a impact in a country that was ruled by an unjust president. With the Movement strong and confident, Castro delivered these strong words to his group of men: “In a few hours you will be victorious or defeated, but regardless of the outcome – listen well, friends – this Movement will triumph. If you win tomorrow, the aspirations of Martí will be fulfilled sooner. If we fail, our action will nevertheless set an example for the Cuban people, and from the people will arise fresh new men willing to die for Cuba. They will pick up our banner and move forward... The people will back us in Oriente and in the whole island. As in '68 and '92, here in Oriente we will give the first cry of Liberty or Death!” These words by Castro illustrates what type of leader he was and still is to this day. Castro is one of the most polarizing figures in Cuban history, with many natives of Cuba arguing that he was the central cause of the destruction of Cuba, while others consider him to be the visionary that saved Cuba from the destruction that would have come about if a capitalist system had been instituted instead of a communist one. Actions taken by Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution shaped Cuba politically and socially to what we know it to be today. Fidel Castro was born in southeast Cuba, in the Oriente Province on August 13, 1926...
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...The missile crisis was unique in terms of having a balance of having thought out plans and having miscalculations. Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba in 1959. Castro aligned himself with the Soviet Union. Under Castro, Cuba grew dependent on the Soviets for military and economic aid. During this time, the U.S. and the Soviets including their allies were engaged in the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union at this point had basically been in conflict on a global scale. “In 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the CIA began organizing and training anti-Castro Cuban exiles for a possible invasion. After President John F. Kennedy entered the White House in 1961, he agreed to continue this program, and in April, more than fourteen hundred commandos landed at the Bay of Pigs. U.S. experts believed that the people would rise up and revolt against Castro during this assault, but Castro easily quashed this rebellion. Afterward, Kennedy devised multiple assassination plans against Castro, and he sanctioned the CIA to conduct sabotage raids upon Cuban sugarcane fields, railroad bridges, and oil tanks through Project...
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...relative gains to the US are to wheat and rice farmers; however, both trades have diminished in the last five years as US suppliers priced themselves out of the market, opening the doors for South American and Asian alternatives.6 Nonetheless the single largest advantage of opening relations with Cuba will be the reduction of federal enforcement costs of the embargo.6 “At least 10 different agencies are responsible for enforcing different provisions of the embargo, and according to the Government Accountability Office, the US government devotes hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man hours to administering the embargo each year. Over 70 percent of US Treasury Department inspections each year are centered on smuggled Cuban goods, even though the agency administers more than 20 other trade...
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...www.ibpsexamguru.in Content: Current Affairs 2013 (December 2012,January 2013,febraury 2013,March 2013, April 2013 ) Howdy ! friends . we are providing Five months current affairs for all competitive exam preparation .. Source : Various Location on Web Portal . Contains : 1. International Awareness 2. National Awareness 3. States News 4. Confrences 5. Sports and News 6. Awards and honors 7. Persons In News 8. Important dates 9. Books and Authors 10. Science and technology 11. Economy News INTERNATIONAL Mahama Re-elected as Ghana’s President : On 10 December Ghana’s incumbent President John Dramani Mahama of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has won the country’s presidential election.Mahama took 50.70 percent of the total valid votes cast, while his closest challenger, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) obtained 47.74 percent.With his re-election, Mahama becomes the fourth president to be elected under the Forth Republic.He had served as Ghana’s vice president since 2009. UN, Pakistan Launched ‘Malala Fund’ : Pakistan joined forces with the United Nations on 10 December 2012 to launch a fund aimed at boosting girls’ education throughout the world.The fund is named for Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl. Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari also announced a $10-million donation for a global war chest to educate all girls by 2015 set up in the name of Malala Yousafzai for campaigning for girls’ education. Shinzo Abe Elected...
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