Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

ACTOR

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in Birán, Holguin Province, Cuba, the fifth of nine children of Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz, a plantation owner originally from Galicia, Spain, who operated a plantation in Cuba's Oriente Province. His mother, Lina Ruz González, was a servant in his father's home who bore Fidel out of wedlock (they later were married several years after Angel's first wife died). Known as a rebellious, loud, and troublesome child, Fidel was sent to a Jesuit boarding school in Santiago de Cuba, where he was often teased by his wealthier classmates who called him a "peasant." He later attended Belen College before enrolling at the University of Havana, where he earned a law degree. After graduating from the university, Castro briefly practiced law, before he went on to marry Mirta Diaz-Balart, a wealthy philosophy student with family ties to Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. They had a son, Fidelito, but after 5 years, the couple divorce and went their separate

  • Where was
    Fidel Castro born?

    Fidel Castro was born in Biran, Oriente Province, Cuba

  • How much is Fidel Castro worth?

    Fidel Castro is worth $900 Million


Best Quotes

  • I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. 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 have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
  • A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
  • 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.
  • 'No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
  • The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
  • I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.
  • We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
  • 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 believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

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