Thesis: Angel Castro y Argiz was a migrant to Cuba from Spain where he started growing sugar cane and became very wealthy of his work. After his first marriage failed Angel took his household servant, Lina Ruz Gonzalez as his first mistress and soon to be second wife. Together they had seven children and amongst three girls and three boys Castro is the third oldest.
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 …show more content…
A leftist leader by the name of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Ayala was assassinated, which led to many riots and battles between the Conservatives which was backed by leftist liberals and the army. Castro joined the invasion by stealing guns from a police station, after many investigations it was proven that Fidel wasn’t involved in any of the killings.
“I joined the people; I grabbed a rifle in a police station that collapsed when it was rushed by a crowd. I witnessed the spectacle of a totally spontaneous revolution... [T]hat experience led me to identify myself even more with the cause of the people. My still incipient Marxist ideas had nothing to do with our conduct – it was a spontaneous reaction on our part, as young people with Martí-an, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and pro-democratic ideas.”
— Fidel Castro on the Bogotazo, 2009
Fidel then returned to Cuba and became a popular figure in protests against government attempts to raise bus fares, that year he married Mirta Diaz Balart a student from a wealthy family through he was exposed to the luxury lifestyle of the Cuban Elite. They were a perfect love-match, although disapproved by both families Mirta’s father gave them tens to thousands of dollars for their honeymoon in New York
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 …show more content…
A leftist leader by the name of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Ayala was assassinated, which led to many riots and battles between the Conservatives which was backed by leftist liberals and the army. Castro joined the invasion by stealing guns from a police station, after many investigations it was proven that Fidel wasn’t involved in any of the killings.
“I joined the people; I grabbed a rifle in a police station that collapsed when it was rushed by a crowd. I witnessed the spectacle of a totally spontaneous revolution... [T]hat experience led me to identify myself even more with the cause of the people. My still incipient Marxist ideas had nothing to do with our conduct – it was a spontaneous reaction on our part, as young people with Martí-an, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and pro-democratic ideas.”
— Fidel Castro on the Bogotazo, 2009
Fidel then returned to Cuba and became a popular figure in protests against government attempts to raise bus fares, that year he married Mirta Diaz Balart a student from a wealthy family through he was exposed to the luxury lifestyle of the Cuban Elite. They were a perfect love-match, although disapproved by both families Mirta’s father gave them tens to thousands of dollars for their honeymoon in New York