Follow politics in Cuba and Fidel Castro in particular.
Fidel's full name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and he was the President of Cuba.
After commanding the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959, he held the...
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Follow politics in Cuba and Fidel Castro in particular.
Fidel's full name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz and he was the President of Cuba.
After commanding the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959, he held the title of Prime Minister of Cuba until 1976, when he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers. Castro became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic.
As president he also held the supreme military rank of Comandante en Jefe of the Cuban armed forces.
On July 31, 2006, Castro, after undergoing intestinal surgery, transferred his responsibilities to the vice-president, his younger brother Raúl.
HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro likened Hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying Wednesday it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the communist government. >>
CARBONDALE - The daughter of longtime Cuban dictator Fidel Castro will share her story with the Southern Illinois University Carbondale community later this month.
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's longtime leader Fidel Castro said Hurricane Gustav hit his country like a nuclear blast, and estimated it would take three to four billion dollars to cope with the emergency. The man who was Cuba's president for almost five decades said images of the destruction...
HAVANA - Fidel Castro likened Hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying today it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the communist...
Occasionally we're forced to learn harsh truths. Santa Claus does not exist. The Tooth Fairy is bullshit. New York is not the center of the world.
Natural disasters have a way of pushing these stark realities to the forefront. Searching for information about Hurricane Gustav, we stumbled upon...
Thursday, September 4, 2008 Video images of the devastation on Cuba's Isla de la Juventud reminded Castro of "the desolation I saw when I visited Hiroshima, which was the victim of an attack of the first atomic bomb in August 1945," the ailing former ...
President Nguyen Minh Triet and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sent messages of sympathies to Raul Castro Ruz, Cuban President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers, over the huge property damage ...
Fidel Castro likened Hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying Wednesday it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the communist government.
Fidel Castro likened Hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying today it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the communist government.
Pictures of Fidel Castro at the height of the Cuban revolution were published Monday in Spain in a new book by late Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, whose image of Che Guevara became a
HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday that Hurricane Gustav hit Cuba like a nuclear bomb and left authorities struggling to ...
Fidel Castro likened hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying Wednesday it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the government.