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Fidel castro


            Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 on a farm in Mayari, Province of Oriente. He attended good Catholic schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana. In 1945 he enrolled in University of Havana. He graduated with a law degree in 1950. Two years before he graduated, in 1948 Fidel Castro married Mirta Diaz-Balart. But then in 1954 they got divorced.
             In 1952, after Fulgencio Bastista y Zald'var seized control of the Cuban government, Castro became the leader. He took control of Cuba in 1959 and established a Communist dictatorship. Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Castro in 1961, now known as The Bay of Pigs. In the early 1960s Castro openly embraced communism and formed close ties with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), relying increasingly on Soviet economic and military aid.
             In 1953 he was jailed for having led the July 26th uprising against Batista. Released in 1955, he went into exile in the United States and Mexico. In 1956 he returned to Cuba and led a rebellion from the Sierra Maestra region of Oriente Province. His rebel forces, known as the 26th of July movement, won steadily increasing popular support. Batista fled from the country on January 1, 1959, and Castro assumed power. He became premier on February 16.
             Castro held power since 1959; president since 1976; formerly prime minister; first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, and the Commander of the Armed Forces.
             Cuban economic problems got worse in the 1990's and finally Castro approved limited economic reforms that legalized some free enterprise.
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             THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
             Fidel Castro was a young lawyer in Cuba when General Fulgencio Batista overthrew the president of Cuba. This angered him very much, therefore, for the next seven years he tried to overthrow the Batista's government.
             Castro led his first attack on July 26, 1953, against the military barracks in Santiago, but he was defeated and arrested. Castro was to spend 15 years in prison.


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