Fidel Castro
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008,
Castro in 1979
Fidel's parents, Ángel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz González
Castro, second from left, at Colegio de Belén, Havana, 1943
General Fulgencio Batista—left, with US Army Chief of Staff Malin Craig, in Washington D.C. in 1938—whose presidency Castro intended to overthrow.
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart
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Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart was a Cuban nuclear physicist and government official. Frequently known by the diminutive Fidelito, he was the eldest son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his first wife
Fidel Castro
…where she met and married Castro. She divorced him later, in 1955, while he was in prison due to the attacks on the Moncada Barracks. They had one son, Fidel Ángel "Fidelito" Castro Díaz-Balart, born in September 1949. During his first marriage, Castro briefly encountered Maria Laborde, an admirer from Camagüey, of whom very little is known…
Castro in 2014
Fidelito with his imprisoned father, 1954
Castro Díaz-Balart (left) with President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, 28 January 2014, 2nd CELAC Summit, Havana.