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Member Number: 458
Executive summary: President-for-Life of Cuba
On 26 July 1953, Fidel Castro led about 150 men in an attack on Moncada barracks, the strongest garrison of Fulgencio Batista. Batista was Cuba's dictator then, a scumbag who had friendly relations with America's government. Dozens of Castro's men were killed in battle, and Fidel was charged with treason. At his trial, he delivered an impassioned two-hour closing argument that was widely but clandestinely circulated under the title History will absolve me! It was a kangaroo trial, and Castro was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but a public groundswell called out for amnesty, and Castro was released in 1955. After a brief period of exile in Mexico, Castro's triumphant return came in 1959, when his next attempt at revolution succeeded. The brutal Batista government was overthrown, and replaced by the brutal Castro government.
History will absolve me was rewritten as a blueprint for Castro's communist regime, and American-owned businesses in Cuba were nationalized. Castro technically kept many of his promises -- Cubans have free health care, education, and little homelessness, but the society has suffered both from the US embargo and the totalitarian regime. Castro called himself Prime Minister from 1959-76, and has called himself President since.
Castro's (and thus Cuba's) relations with the US have been icy ever since that little spat over the Russian nukes in 1960. Cubans who travel to America without permission risk drowning and forced repatriation. Americans who travel to Cuba without official US approval risk hefty fines.
Father: Angel Castro y Argiz (sugar plantation owner)
Mother: Lina Ruz Gonzáles (his father's maid)
Brother: Raul (co-revolutionary)
Wife: Mirta Diaz Balart de Nunez (m. 12-Oct-1948; div. 1954, one son)
Son: Fidel Casro Diaz-Balart Jr. (head of Cuba's atomic energy bureau, b. 1-Sep-1949)
Girlfriend: Natalia "Naty" Revuelta (military cap-maker, b. 1925)
Daughter: Alina Fernandez (b. 1956)
High School: Colegio Belén, Havana, Cuba
Law School: University of Havana, Havana, Cuba (1950)
President of Cuba
Order of Lenin
Stalin Peace Prize 1961
Excommunicated by Pope John XXIII 3-Jan-1962
Converted to Atheism
Assassination Attempt multiple
Pardoned
Treason
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Looking for Fidel (14-Apr-2004) Himself
Comandante (18-Jan-2003) Himself
Fidel (2-Aug-2001) Himself
Waiting for Fidel (1974) Himself
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