Fidel Castro
Biography
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Born in Birán, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962. Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fidel Castro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Karl Marx und seine Erben
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La Société du spectacle
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Comandante
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537 Votes
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Balseros
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Yanki No!
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Loin du Vietnam
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Looking for Fidel
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Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
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The Man Who Saved the World
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CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
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Historien ska frikänna mig
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Laissez-faire
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Тревога. Раздумья старого человека
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The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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...Y el cielo fue tomado por asalto
Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Cuban Politician (uncredited)
¡Cuba Sí!
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El caso Padilla
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Fidel
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
archívne zábery
Kubánske otázniky
Compromiso con Chile
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Chile, el gran desafío
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Laboratory Greece
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Memorias del Desarrollo
El Alcalde
Acta General de Chile
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CBS Reports: The CIA's Secret Army
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JFK
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Revolution's Daughter
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638 Ways to Kill Castro
Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
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Rat Pack
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Franco i Fidel, una amistat incòmoda
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История одной командировки
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The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
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The Fog of War
Soy Cuba, o mamute Siberiano
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Andança: Os Encontros e as Memórias de Beth Carvalho
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La guerra necesaria
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8A
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Memória Cubana
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The Uncompromising Revolution
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Cuba and Fidel
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Salut les Cubains
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Did the Mob Kill JFK?
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Пылающий остров
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O Dia Que Durou 21 Anos
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Mi hermano Fidel
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Lejos de la isla
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Venceremos, solidaridad
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Waiting for Fidel
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Becoming Cousteau
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Dans la peau de Fidel Castro
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El juego de Cuba
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Castro in Winter
Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
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La hora de los hornos
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Nadie
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Un Giorno con Fidel
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Fidel Racconta il Che
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Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
Ernesto Che Guevara - Uomo, Compagno, Amico
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South of the Border
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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Él mismo
El Diálogo de América
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Looking for Fidel
Two Meetings and a Funeral
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Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
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Asamblea general
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Cuba and the Cameraman
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Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
Celia - la más hermosa flor
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Chop Chop Chang: Operation C.H.I.M.P
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Another Day of Life
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Mauvaise Conduite
Himself - President of Cuba (archive footage)
Angola: The War
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Muerte al invasor
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Fidel Castro en la Mira
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
La bataille des dix millions
La guerra de la CIA contra Cuba
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Santiago Files
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Elián
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Cuba, un aller et un retour
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Cuba, el valor de una utopía
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Topaz
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Wasp Network
Él mismo
De América soy hijo... y a ella me debo
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Oswald's Ghost
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Brascuba
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Cuban Rebel Girls
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Ethel
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Salvador Allende
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Chavismo: La peste del siglo XXI
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Amérique latine, l'année de tous les dangers
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Attentate auf Franco - Widerstand gegen einen Diktator
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The War on Democracy
Self - Prime Minister of Cuba (archive footage)
On Company Business
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El Che
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American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
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Lieber Fidel - Maritas Geschichte
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Fidel Castro. Ewiger Revolutionär
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Naqoyqatsi
Self (segment "Diary of a Beginner") (archive footage)
7 días en La Habana
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ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
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La independencia inconclusa
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Le fond de l'air est rouge
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Portrait of Castro's Cuba
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Mission Mind Control
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La Explotación del Hombre por el Hombre
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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Året var 1958
El día más largo
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Palme
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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
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El primer año
Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe
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James Bond: The First 21 Years
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JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
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The JFK Conspiracy
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On vous parle du Brésil : Carlos Marighella
Fidel Castro
Che, Hoy y Siempre
Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara
Sig selv (arkiv)
Dronningen og statsministrene - i al fortrolighed
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Hồ Chí Minh - Chân dung một con người
Himself (archival footage)
Germán Araújo
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
132
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-08-13
Place of Birth
Birán, Cuba
Also Known As
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz