Fidel Casto: Castro's Journey To Power

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The section of this article I found most interesting was Castro’s journey to power I think this is most interesting because. Fidel Casto was born on august 13,1926 in eastern Cuba’s sugar country. Fidel Casto and his brother Raul went to prison. In 1964 Casto admitted to holding 15,000 people as political prisoners and thousands of Cubans fled, including Casto’s own daughter and sister.
The techniques this in in this passage are splitting it into sections. I think this is more helpful and easier to read and keep track of all the information. The second technique the writer the writer uses is titling these sections different names so not just sections with no titles.

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