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Fidel Castro Wiki Biography

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on 13 August 1926, in Birán, Holguin Province, Cuba, into a wealthy farming family. Fidel Castro is known world-wide as the Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008.

So just how rich is Fidel Castro? Sources have estimated that Castro’s net worth is $900 million, most of his wealth has been accumulated during his career as a Cuban politician, and making him one of the richest people in Cuba.

Fidel Castro’s father, Angeles Castro, was the owner of sugar cane plantation, but his mother, Lina Eng Gonzales, worked as a cook. In 1945 Fidel registered in the Faculty of Law of the University of Havana, and during his studies became involved in the revolutionary movement. In 1947 Castro participated in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Dictator Rafael Trujillo, but still in 1950 he graduated from the with a doctorate in law, and the same year joined the Communist Party of Cuba. Castro organized the struggle against the dictatorship, and in 1953 led the revolution in Santiago de Cuba, after which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but was released after a year and went to Mexico, where he founded the July 26th movement. with the continuing goal of overthrowing the Cuban dictatorship.

With the growing number of partisans, in 1959 Castro successfully fought against the demoralized, poorly led army of President Batista, and as the definite Revolution leader, Fidel Castro became the commander of the army, and the same year Cuba’s prime minister. With this leadership Fidel Castro’s net worth was  to increase steadily. In 1959 Castro announced Cuba to be a socialist republic, with private business and industry nationalized. Since this was the only communist country in America, signing trade agreements with the Soviet Union. Cuba immediately became a Cold War confrontation object between the Soviet Union and the United States, resulting in the abortive Bay of Pigs landing by anti-revolutionaries in 1961, and the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. (In 1961 the United States cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba, only restored in 2015.)

Fidel Castro remained prime minister until 1976, when the new constitution was created by the National Assembly, and he became  the State Council chairman. He also kept command of the army and the Cuban Communist Party General Secretary posts, which has helped Fidel to increase his net worth. In 2006 due to deteriorating health of Fidel Castro, his brother Raul Castro took over the position of President. In 2008 it was announced that Fidel will not accept another presidential term and his brother Raul was elected as the country’s President, Castro remained First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba until 2011. According to ‘Forbes’ magazine, Fidel Castro became the richest person in Cuba. In fact, reports of Castro big assets could be justified, as he had the control of almost all sectors of the economy in Cuba, and his net worth rose during all the years he was in power.

Fidel Castro has married twice and has nine children. His first marriage with Mirta Diaz-Balart lasted from 1948 to 1955. He has been married to Dalia Soto del Valle since 1980.

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Fidel Castro Trademarks

1. Almost always appears in public in solid green military fatigues
2. His long beard

Fidel Castro Quotes

• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
• No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
• Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
• I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
• North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
• A revolution is not a bed of roses.
• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
• Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.
• How can we help President Obama?
• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
• I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
• I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
• [text from a famous 1953 speech. The last line is considered his most famous quote ever] “I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.”
• [from a 1957 NY Times interview] Power does not interest me. After victory I want to go back to my village and just be a lawyer again.

Fidel Castro Important Facts

• He is one of the eight surviving people mentioned by name in the 1989 Billy Joel song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. The other seven are Doris Day, Queen Elizabeth II, Brigitte Bardot, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan, John Glenn and Bernard Goetz.
• While attending The University of Havana in 1946, he worked as an extra in several Hollywood Films including “Holiday Inn Mexico” and “Easy To Wed’ both starring Esther Williams.
• Loved to play baseball, and while living in the United States, was invited to try out for the Washington Senators. He failed to make the cut, however, and went to law school instead.
• Brother of Raúl Castro.
• Is portrayed by Jack Palance in Che! (1969) and Anthony LaPaglia in Company Man (2000).
• Has an estimated net worth of $ 900 million, according to Forbes magazine.
• Announced that he would resign as president and commander-in-chief (19 February 2008).
• A close friend and ally of Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales.
• Has one son from his first marriage, Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart (born on 1 September 1949), and an illegitimate daughter from his relationship with Natalia Revuelta Clews, wife of Orlando Fernández: Alina Fernández Revuelta(born on 19 March 1956). From his second marriage to Dalia Soto del Valle, he has five sons called Antonio, Alejandro, Alexis, Alex e Angel Castro Soto del Valle as well as a son by an unknown mother, Jorge Angel Castro.
• Born to Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (5 December 1875-1821 October 1956), a Galician immigrant who became a prosperous farmer, and his later wife Lina Ruz González, a household servant, he had five older siblings from his father’s first marriage with María Argota Reyes: Manuel (1913-1914), María Lila Perfidia (born in 1913), Pedro Emilio (born in 1914), Antonia María Dolores (born in 1915) and Georgina de la Caridad (born in 1918) Castro Argota. From his parents’ marriage, he had two older and four younger siblings: Ángela María (born on 2 April 1923 died in 2012), Ramón Eusebio (born on 14 October 1924-23 February 2016), Raúl Modesto (born on 3 June 1931), Juana de la Caridad (born on 6 May 1933) (aka Juanita Castro), Emma Concepción (born on 2 January 1935) and Agustina del Carmen (born on 28 August 1938) Castro Ruz, all born before wedlock.
• Underwent major surgery for an intestinal illness in July 2006. His brother Raul has temporarily ruled the country since then to this date. The illness is widely believed to be cancer, though he has denied this.
• On 20 October 2004, he fell off a stage following a speech he gave at a rally. The fall fractured his knee and arm. He underwent three hours and 15 minutes of surgery to repair his left kneecap, which was fractured into eight pieces.
• Quit smoking cigars in 1986.
• Was impersonated by Jackie Wright on The Benny Hill Show (1969)
• Enterting law school at the University of Havana, he became involved in the political culture there (1945).
• Famous admirers include Ted Turner, Jack Nicholson, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Steven Spielberg, Chevy Chase, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Redford, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Oliver Stone.
• Was a good friend of the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and late author Ernest Hemingway.
• His brother Raul Castro is next in line to rule if he were to die. Raul has ruled Cuba as regent since Castro became ill in July 2006.
• According to some reports, Castro was born in 1927, however due to the fact that he was too young to enroll at a school, he changed his year of birth to 1926 so that he could enter the school. 26 also happens to be his lucky number.
• Lived with Celia Sanchez, an upper-class Cuban woman and devoted guerrilla leader for almost 30 years. Sanchez, the love of his life, was also the only one who could disagree with him. Her death from cancer in 1980 was said to hurt him very hard.
• Fluent in English, but refuses to speak it anymore, even in public or private interviews because he considers it to be “the language of his enemies.”
• Hobbies are fishing, hunting and reading.
• Rarely sleeps more than three or four hours a day.
• Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President of Cuba since 1976.

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