Cuba’s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, Fidel Castro, has died at age 90.
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century before handing over the powers to his brother Raul in 2008.
Fidel Castro, was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically 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 socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms implemented throughout society.
“I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
“I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.”
“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”
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