Fidel Castro was an influential and highly publicized leader as he took a socialist stand on many of his views, if not all of them. As the communist leader of Cuba for nearly half a century, he oversaw his socialist regime and was the pariah of the socialist movement in Cuba. Before Castro took charge of Cuba in 1959 he led a guerilla warfare style attack against the countries then leader Batista. With full control of Cuba, Castro implemented a communist regime in order to hopefully rid the economic power that the United States had gained in the years leading up to his reign. Fidel Castro played pivotal roles in some of the world’s biggest political events. Event’s like the Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that left America afraid that the
