After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. Over the years, Castro added an elevator, fitness room, and a bowling alley for his and Celia's personal use. On 18 February 1961, 400 people—mainly Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and college students—picketed in the rain outside of the United Nations rallying for Castro's anti-colonial values and his effort to reduce the United States' power over Cuba. [99] With volunteers boosting the rebel forces to over 200, in July 1957 Castro divided his army into three columns, commanded by himself, his brother, and Guevara. [466][467] In his earlier years in power, he showcased some of his family life, in particular his eldest son Fidelito in order to portray himself as a normal "family man" to the apprehensive American audience, but eventually abandoned that as he became more concerned about his personal safety. In the Sierra Maestra mountains, Castro was joined by Frank Sturgis who offered to train Castro's troops in guerrilla warfare. [314] In August 1994, Havana witnessed the largest anti-Castro demonstration in Cuban history, as 200 to 300 young men threw stones at police, demanding that they be allowed to emigrate to Miami. [369] During the North Korea crisis of 2013, he urged both the North Korean and U.S. governments to show restraint. [253] The decision to intervene in Angola has been a controversial one, all the more so as Castro's critics have charged that it was not his decision at all, contending that the Soviets ordered him to do so. [333] The alliance boosted the Cuban economy,[334] and in May 2005 Castro doubled the minimum wage for 1.6 million workers, raised pensions, and delivered new kitchen appliances to Cuba's poorest residents. [171] The opening session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 1960 was a highly rancorous one with Khrushchev famously banging his shoe against his desk to interrupt a speech by Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong, which set the general tone for the debates and speeches. She was promoted into a national celebrity and propaganda tool and when the cow died in 1985, Granma published an official obituary for her on the front page and the postal service issued stamps in her honor as well. [331][332] That same year, Castro initiated Misión Milagro, a joint medical project which aimed to provide free eye operations on 300,000 individuals from each nation. [163] Meeting with Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, Castro agreed to provide the USSR with sugar, fruit, fibers, and hides in return for crude oil, fertilizers, industrial goods, and a $100 million loan. [387] Castro biographer Sebastian Balfour noted that "the vein of moral regeneration and voluntarism that runs through" Castro's thought owes far more to "Hispanic nationalism" than European socialism or Marxism–Leninism. [285] In a July 1983 speech marking the 30th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Castro condemned Reagan's administration as a "reactionary, extremist clique" who were waging an "openly warmongering and fascist foreign policy". Castro played in South American Championship-winning teams in 1926 and 1935. [414] He enjoyed art and photography and was known as a patron of both within Cuba but was uninterested in music and disliked dancing. Aquarama II, which was decorated with wood donated from Angola, had two double cabins, one for Fidel's personal use, a main sitting room, two bathrooms, a bar, a secure communications suite, and was equipped with four Osa-class missile boat engines gifted from Brezhnev allowing for top speeds of over 42 Knots. Introduced to it by his father at the age of 15, Castro continued the habit for almost 44 years with the exception of a brief period during the 1950s while a guerilla fighter and boycotting against Batista linked Tobacco firms. Department 1 was for Fidel's security, Department 2 was Raul and Vilma's, and Department 3 was for the members of the Politburo and so on. [287], In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party. ... Facundo Castro, su FIFA.com, FIFA. He presented these demands to U Thant, visiting Secretary-General of the United Nations, but the U.S. ignored them. [213] Measures were implemented to force perceived idle and delinquent youths to work, primarily through the introduction of mandatory military service. [417] This interest reached its peak in 1982 when a cow that Fidel had bred "Ubre Blanca", broke the Guinness World Record for producing 29 Gallons of Milk live on national TV. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" â€“ namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela â€“ and signed Cuba up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. Castro died in 1960 at the age of 55, from a heart attack. [130] More recent estimates place the death toll between 1,000[131] and 4,000. He considered Western-dominated Africa to be ripe for revolution, and sent troops and medics to aid Ahmed Ben Bella's socialist regime in Algeria during the Sand War. [507] Describing Castro as a "totalitarian dictator",[508] Sondrol suggested that in leading "a political system largely [of] his own creation and bearing his indelible stamp", Castro's leadership style warranted comparisons with totalitarian leaders like Mao Zedong, Hideki Tojo, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini. If you don't eventually come to truly understand the history of the. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (), kubanski politik, * 13. avgust 1926, Birán, Kuba, † 25. november 2016, Havana.. Bil je kubanski premier od 1959 do 1976 in nato predsednik države (državnega sveta in sveta ministrov) od 1976 do 2008, vrhovni poveljnik kubanskih oboroženih sil od 1959 do 2008 ter prvi sekretar Komunistične partije Kube od 1961 do 2011. film. Whenever he would leave Havana, a fifth Mercedes would join the procession carrying his doctor, nurse, and photographer. government. [301] In Eastern Europe, socialist governments fell to capitalist reformers between 1989 and 1991 and many Western observers expected the same in Cuba. [444] Osmany Cienfuegos designed the a private bungalow, guesthouse, bridge, marina, and a building for the use of the bodyguards and support staff. [146] After conservative press expressed hostility towards the government, the pro-Castro printers' trade union disrupted editorial staff, and in January 1960 the government ordered them to publish a "clarification" written by the printers' union at the end of articles critical of the government. [323] In 1994 a ministry dedicated to the environment was established, and new laws established in 1997 that promoted awareness of environmental issues throughout Cuba and stressed the sustainable use of natural resources. [65] Believing Castro incapable of planning the attack alone, the government accused Ortodoxo and PSP politicians of involvement, putting 122 defendants on trial on 21 September at the Palace of Justice, Santiago. She has often appeared in public with Fidel, in particular Oliver Stone's, This page was last edited on 22 March 2021, at 13:19. Whatever we may think of him he is going to be a great factor in the development of Cuba and very possibly in Latin American affairs generally. There, the assassination of popular leftist leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala led to widespread rioting and clashes between the governing Conservatives â€“ backed by the army â€“ and leftist Liberals. Most significantly, Che Guevara became Governor of the Central Bank and then Minister of Industries. A charismatic figure, Chibás advocated social justice, honest government, and political freedom, while his party exposed corruption and demanded reform. [328] Some economic problems remained; in 2004, Castro shut down 118 factories, including steel plants, sugar mills and paper processors to compensate for a critical shortage of fuel. [442], In addition to "Punto Cero", Castro had 5 other residences in Havana: Casa Cojimar, his initial home after 1959 but disused by the 1970s; a house on 160th Street near the Playa district; Casa Carbonell, maintained by Cuban Intelligence for his covert meetings with representatives of foreign groups or intelligence assets; A beach house in Santa Maria del Mar (next to the Tropico Hotel); and two houses retrofitted with air-raid shelters and connected to the MINFAR command bunkers for use in war: Casa Punta Brava (Dalia's old house before meeting Fidel) and Casa Gallego, near the bodyguards base at Unit 160. [271] In 1979, the Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was held in Havana, where Castro was selected as NAM president, a position he held until 1982. [302] Increasingly isolated, Cuba improved relations with Manuel Noriega's right-wing government in Panama – despite Castro's personal hatred of Noriega – but it was overthrown in a U.S. invasion in December 1989. His favorite movie was the five hour long 1967 adaption of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. [89], After purchasing the decrepit yacht Granma, on 25 November 1956, Castro set sail from Tuxpan, Veracruz, with 81 armed revolutionaries. Castro admitted that Cuba faced the worst situation short of open war, and that the country might have to resort to subsistence farming. [446] Castro utilized two yachts, Aquarama I, confiscated from a Batista Government official and later in the 1970s, the 90-foot white hull Aquarama II. [198] Security reports indicated that many Cubans associated austerity with the "Old Communists" of the PSP, while Castro considered a number of them â€“ namely Aníbal Escalante and Blas Roca â€“ unduly loyal to Moscow. [27] At this point, his public speeches took on a distinctly leftist slant by condemning social and economic inequality in Cuba. He asserted that Castro "always had a keen sense of humor and could laugh at himself" but could equally be "a bad loser" who would act with "ferocious rage if he thought that he was being humiliated". [519] The biographer Volka Skierka stated that "he will go down in history as one of the few revolutionaries who remained true to his principles". [378] The cause of death was not disclosed. Yeltsin despised Castro and developed links with the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation. 1926 South American Championship winners (6th title), 1927 South American Championship runners-up, 1935 South American Championship winners (7th title), 1959 South American Championship (Argentina), "Ouch Q&A: Héctor Castro 1930s disabled football star", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Héctor_Castro&oldid=1000856756, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles using Template:Medal with Winner, Articles using Template:Medal with Runner-up, Pages using national squad without sport or team link, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only, This page was last edited on 17 January 2021, at 02:02. [503] Quirk stated that Castro wielded "absolute power" in Cuba, albeit not in a legal or constitutional manner,[504] while Bourne claimed that power in Cuba was "completely invested" in Castro,[505] adding that it was very rare for "a country and a people" to have been so completely dominated by "the personality of one man". [241] In April 1971, Castro was internationally condemned for ordering the arrest of dissident poet Heberto Padilla who had been arrested 20 March; Padilla was freed, but the government established the National Cultural Council to ensure that intellectuals and artists supported the administration. [230][231], Influenced by China's Great Leap Forward, in 1968 Castro proclaimed a Great Revolutionary Offensive, closing all remaining privately owned shops and businesses and denouncing their owners as capitalist counter-revolutionaries. It had allowed some political opposition to be voiced, and Castro's supporters had agitated for an amnesty for the Moncada incident's perpetrators. [453] Castro provided a large apartment for Celia on 11th Street near Vedado, El Once whom Fidel visited every day before returning home. [393] [278] The event destabilized Carter's administration, and later, in 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected U.S. president. 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. [180], – Peter Bourne, Castro biographer, 1986[181], In January 1961, Castro ordered Havana's U.S. Embassy to reduce its 300-member staff, suspecting that many of them were spies. [154] Major emphasis was placed on education, and during the first 30 months of Castro's government, more classrooms were opened than in the previous 30 years. After retiring as a player, Castro worked as a football coach with Nacional. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (wym. [200], Militarily weaker than NATO, Khrushchev wanted to install Soviet R-12 MRBM nuclear missiles on Cuba to even the power balance. ("Fatherland or Death"), a proclamation that he made much use of in ensuing years. [96] They began launching raids on small army posts to obtain weaponry, and in January 1957 they overran the outpost at La Plata, treating any soldiers that they wounded but executing Chicho Osorio, the local mayoral (land company overseer), who was despised by the local peasants and who boasted of killing one of Castro's rebels. [117] Cantillo entered Havana's Presidential Palace, proclaimed the Supreme Court judge Carlos Piedra to be president, and began appointing the new government. I witnessed the spectacle of a totally spontaneous revolution ... [T]hat experience led me to identify myself even more with the cause of the people. [146] The Cuban government also began to expropriate the casinos and properties from mafia leaders and taking millions in cash. [408] Castro liked to meet with ordinary citizens, both in Cuba and abroad, but took a particularly paternal attitude toward Cubans, treating them as if "they were a part of his own giant family". Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz, född 3 juni 1931 i Birán i Holguín-provinsen, Kuba, är en kubansk kommunistisk politiker som var Kubas president 2008–2018, försvarsminister 1959-2008, vicepresident 1976-2008, tillförordnad president 2006-2008 och förstesekreterare i Kubas kommunistiska parti sedan 2011. [43] His hopes for Cuba still centered on Chibás and the Partido Ortodoxo, and he was present at Chibás' politically motivated suicide in 1951. [497] Balfour also noted that throughout Latin America, Castro served as "a symbol of defiance against the continued economic and cultural imperialism of the United States". In 1973, the military led a coup d'état and established a military junta led by Augusto Pinochet. [226], Castro's increasing role on the world stage strained his relationship with the USSR, now under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev. Instead, he advocated hard work, family values, integrity, and self-discipline. All of his food was sourced from Punto Cero or fished from his private island of Cayo Piedra, with the exception of cases of Algerian Red Wine gifted initially from Houari Boumediene and continued by successive Algerian governments and Iraqi figs and fruit jams from Saddam Hussein. [445] He arrived here from his inaccessible private marina located near the Bay of Pigs, La Caleta del Rosario, which also housed another residence and guesthouse. [178], Castro proclaimed the new administration a direct democracy, in which Cubans could assemble at demonstrations to express their democratic will. [66] Acting as his own defense counsel, Castro cited Martí as the intellectual author of the attack and convinced the three judges to overrule the army's decision to keep all defendants handcuffed in court, proceeding to argue that the charge with which they were accused – of "organizing an uprising of armed persons against the Constitutional Powers of the State" – was incorrect, for they had risen up against Batista, who had seized power in an unconstitutional manner. The match went ahead behind closed doors, and there were no goals in the twenty minutes. [341] [261] Barre who saw seizing the Ogaden as the first step towards creating a greater Somalia that would unite all of the Somalis into one state rejected the federation offer, and decided upon war. [161] Militant anti-Castro groups, funded by exiles, the CIA, and the Dominican government, undertook armed attacks and set up guerrilla bases in Cuba's mountains, leading to the six-year Escambray Rebellion. [292] In the spring of 1988, the intensity of South African-Cuban fighting drastically increased with both sides taking heavy losses. He welcomed Western politicians and investors to Cuba, befriended Manuel Fraga and took a particular interest in Margaret Thatcher's policies in the UK, believing that Cuban socialism could learn from her emphasis on low taxation and personal initiative. [396] Castro took a relatively socially conservative stance on many issues, opposing drug use, gambling, and prostitution, which he viewed as moral evils. [85] Castro also associated with the Spaniard Alberto Bayo, who agreed to teach Castro's rebels the necessary skills in guerrilla warfare. [457][453] Reynaldo Sanchez confirmed that Celia was indeed Castro's mistress and regarded her as the "true love of his life". We are not executing innocent people or political opponents. South American Championship. Ambassador to Cuba, E. T. Smith, who felt the whole CIA mission had become too close to the MR-26-7 movement,[115][116] personally went to Batista and informed him that the U.S. would no longer support him and felt he no longer could control the situation in Cuba. [282] Soviet economic assistance had not helped Cuba's long-term growth prospects by promoting diversification or sustainability. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (Birán, 1926. augusztus 13. [377], Castro died on the night of 25 November 2016. This does not mean that we are going to surrender. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. [286] Castro feared a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua and sent Ochoa to train the governing Sandinistas in guerrilla warfare, but received little support from the USSR. Carreira. He also seized property previously held by wealthy Cubans who had fled. I would not be stopped by the hatred and ill will of a few thousand people, including some of my relatives, half the people I know, two-thirds of my fellow professionals, and four-fifths of my ex-schoolmates. Castro was born in Montevideo. [55] Supplied with new weaponry, Castro intended to spark a revolution among Oriente's impoverished cane cutters and promote further uprisings. A reformer, he implemented measures to increase freedom of the press (glasnost) and economic decentralization (perestroika) in an attempt to strengthen socialism. Castro first and foremost is and always has been a committed. [468] Throughout his rule, Fidel never named an official "First Lady" and when the need for such a public female companion was necessary, Celia Sánchez or Raul's wife, Vilma Espin would play such a role of la primera dama. "[82] The Castros and several comrades traveled to Mexico,[83] where Raúl befriended an Argentine doctor and Marxist–Leninist named Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who was working as a journalist and photographer for "Agencia Latina de Noticias". [495] The administration also relied heavily on its appeals to nationalistic sentiment, in particular the widespread hostility to the U.S. [232] The severe lack of consumer goods for purchase led productivity to decline, as large sectors of the population felt little incentive to work hard. Dinner was his primary meal, consisting of grilled fish, chicken, mutton, or even pata negra ham on special occasions along with a large serving of green vegetables, but was prevented from eating beef or coffee by his dietician. [10] Although Castro took an interest in history, geography, and debating at Belén, he did not excel academically, instead devoting much of his time to playing sports. [292] The cost of Cuba's wars in Africa were paid for with Soviet subsidies at a time when the Soviet economy was badly hurt by low oil prices while the white supremacist government of South Africa had by the 1980s became a very awkward American ally as much of the American population, especially black Americans, objected to apartheid. Fourteen were put on trial for crimes allegedly committed before the revolution, while the others were returned to the U.S. in exchange for medicine and food valued at U.S. $25 million. [63] Responding to the attack, Batista's government proclaimed martial law, ordering a violent crackdown on dissent, and imposing strict media censorship. [91] The plan had been for the crossing to take five days, and on the Granma's scheduled day of arrival, 30 November, MR-26-7 members under Frank País led an armed uprising in Santiago and Manzanillo. [219], – Walter Lippmann, Newsweek, April 27, 1964[220], Despite Soviet misgivings, Castro continued to call for global revolution, funding militant leftists and those engaged in national liberation struggles. [292] From afar in Havana, Castro was closely involved in the decision-making about the defense of Cuito Cuanavle and came into conflict with Ochoa, whom he criticized for almost losing Cuito Cuanavle to a South African assault on 13 January 1988 despite warning for almost two months prior that such an attack was coming. [3] Nacional's fans remember this game as the "9 contra 11" ("9 against 11") since their team played the remaining 20 minutes plus both overtimes (totalling over 80 minutes) with nine players. [105] As Cuba's press was censored, Castro contacted foreign media to spread his message; he became a celebrity after being interviewed by Herbert Matthews, a journalist from The New York Times. [412] His hero was Alexander the Great, whose Spanish equivalent Alejandro he adopted as his nom de guerre. [16] Castro became critical of the corruption and violence of President Ramón Grau's government, delivering a public speech on the subject in November 1946 that received coverage on the front page of several newspapers. [291] Castro became passionate in his denunciation of the Third World debt problem, arguing that the Third World would never escape the debt that First World banks and governments imposed upon it. 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[21], –  Fidel Castro on the Bogotazo, 2009[22], In June 1947, Castro learned of a planned expedition to overthrow the right-wing government of Rafael Trujillo, a U.S. ally, in the Dominican Republic.
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