Fidel grew up in a more fortunate and a better environment than the average Cubans of that time. He was four when he entered the public grammar school that some of his brothers and sisters already attended. Fidel was very strong-willed and not able to tolerate any type of “criticism or imposition of authority.” Fidel was disruptive and his schoolteachers were not able to deal with him, and he attended many schools before he completed his elementary education.

By his teens he had begun to use his school vacations usefully, he attempted to organizer the sugar workers on his father’s own estate to strike agai

During the time Fidel was in college, Fulgencio Batista was in his first presidency of Cuba. He became a democratic leader during a military overthrow after a period of violent political unrest. The United States government feared that the unrest would eventually lead to a communist takeover, so they discretely established contact with Batista to help him run Cuba during the presidency of five different presidents, until they felt he was ready to be president. His period of leadership was important for Cuba and with his leadership Cubans were encouraged that a new era of democracy was coming.

After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Castro became more and more anti-American. In October of 1961, he announced to his people and the world during a television talk show that his political party would now have a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary program adjusted to the precise objective conditions of Cuba. His announcement led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when Khrushchev deployed nuclear submarines toward Cuba. President Kennedy gave Castro and Khrushchev and ultimatum to stop or be stopped by U.S. warships and planes. Khrushchev gave in to President Kennedy and it is believed that an all-out nuclear war was diverted.

Batista was elected president of Cuba in November 1954 and in May 1955 an amnesty bill for political prisoners was ratified and Fidel and all other political prisoners were freed. Fidel immediately began leading the revolution against Batista’s government and formed the “26 of July Movement,” a group of revolutionaries named after the date of his first revolt. He exiled himself to Mexico when things in Cuba became dangerous. During this period of time he met Celia Sanchez, who helped him with public relations and helped him to obtain funds for the revolution through her many political contacts. She became his companion, although they never married.

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