Castro

Castro revolutionized the Caribbean country to what we know today. After taking power, Castro abolished legal discrimination, brought electricity to the countryside, provided for full employment and advanced the causes of education and health care, in part by building new schools and medical facilities. (“Fidel Castro.") Although, he gave the people their needs, he also subdued them to no outside influence such…

Fidel Castro is revered as one of the most prominent communist leaders of the last century. On August 13, 1926 Fidel Castro was born in Birán, Cuba to his parents Angel Castro y Agrgiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel had six siblings consisting of four sisters and two brothers. His brothers were Raul and Ramon Castro, and his sisters went by the names of Juanita, Angelita, Enma, and Augustina Castro. His dad was a Spanish immigrant who made a fortune constructing railroad systems with the means of…

response to the United States’ attempt to democratize the country, which lead to the United States’ retaliating with the trade embargo. This political enmity between the two countries went on for 54 years, but is now coming to an end as Obama and Raúl Castro coincide to revive diplomatic interactions. Some experts say that this rekindling of political relations will bring benefits to both the nations, while others say that it will cause nothing but harm. The movement towards normalization will…

Some people may consider Fidel Castro to be the greatest man to ever live. However, those people are stupid communist so they are wrong. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, was born August 13, 1926, near Birán, Cuba. He enrolled at the School of Law of the University of Havana in 1945. Castro’s main activity at the university was politics, and he joined in numerous riots during his time there. After graduating in 1950, Fidel Castro began his practice of law and became a member of the reformist Cuban…

Hearing Fidel Castro piece together a conversation with a reporter in English after visit to United Nations in the US on Youtube is quite a treat. He struggles to brave hostile questions with a limited English vocabulary and a thick Cuban accent. He is asked if he is a communist and tells the reporter to wait for the history, “the history will tell what we are.” (Fidel Castro after Visit to United Nations in the U.S., 1960) This memo will be an analysis of Castro’s contradictory interactions…

Fidel Castro Fidel Castro came into the World on August 13, 1926 (Fidel Castro). He was born out of wedlock (Fidel Castro:Cuba’s Revolutionary leader). His father was named Angel and his mother was named Lina. His mother was at one point his father 's maid. (Fidel Castro:Cuba’s Revolutionary Leader). He was born in Biran a tiny town in eastern Cuba. In his younger years he was an amazing baseball player (Fidel Castro). A little bit later in his life he enrolled to be a law student at the…

Fidel Castro was a Cuban politician who became Prime Minister of Cuba in 1959 until 1976 when he then became President of Cuba until 2008. Castro was an infamous dictator of Cuba and managed to serve as president for 32 years. Castro has been the influence of many political decisions around the world and he has quite a bit to offer as a leader. Though Fidel Castro’s name alone rings a bell of bad intention, he managed to have a support system that was loyal to him until the end. One question…

big, some small; some good and others bad. Great leaders leave behind the greatest legacies. Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, left behind a legacy controversial to many. In spite of the fact that many Americans view Fidel Castro with a reprobative attitude, once he came into power he made many laws that gave his people great benefits and opportunities that still continue today. Fidel Castro, a Havana lawyer, ran for the Cuban congress, but it got canceled after Fulgencio Batista…

located on the south coast of Cuba about 97 miles southeast of Havana, it gave Castro a military victory and a permanent symbol of Cuban resistance to America aggression. The plan was a total failure because instead of overthrowing Fidel Castro and his revolution, the plan to overthrow Castro immediately fell apart. Over 100 of the attackers were killed, and more than 1,100 were captured. The plan to overthrow Castro immediately fell apart. The landing force met with unexpectedly counterattacks…

When castro came into power he had nationalized all american companies in Cuba. He disagreed with everything that General Fulgencio Batista stood for so he did what he knew he wanted and what the people wanted. In a form of retaliation, America stopped all aid and all imports of Cuban sugar. This greatly affected Cuba because the sugar was the mainstay of its economy. With Cuba’s economy going down into ruin Castro had to think of something to help his country and stop his people from dying of…