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Fidel Castro
Languages
Spanish (native)
Occupation
Prime Minister of Cuba (former)
Fidel Castro (August 13, – November 25, ) was the former Prime Minister of Cuba.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Fidel Castro was born on his father's farm on August 13, [1]
Rise to Power[]
Fidel Castro became the Prime Minister of Cuba on February 16, On December 2, , Castro transitioned from being Prime Minister to being President until July 31, , when he went on medical leave and the position went to Castro's son Raúl. Fidel, however, kept the position until February 24, [1]
Death[]
Fidel Castro died during the night on November 25, His body was cremated and entombed in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba.[1]
Personality[]
Fidel Castro was mentioned to be incredibly homophobic, to the extent that Ramon Limon, one of Castro's top men, who was gay, was forced to move to Miami to avoid being found out. When Castro found out, he hired Charles and
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Marita Lorenz
German spy and lover of Fidel Castro (–)
Ilona Marita Lorenz (18 August – 31 August ) was a German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in and in January was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro's life.
In the s and s, she testified about the John F. Kennedy assassination, stating that she was involved with a group of anti-Cuban militants, including Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt of CIA and Watergate infamy, shortly before the assassination.
Early life
[edit]She was born Ilona Marita Lorenz in Bremen, the daughter of Alice June (née Lofland) and Heinrich Lorenz. She had a sister, Valerie, and two brothers, Joachim and Manfred "Philip".[2] Her father, a wealthy German navy captain, became commander of a fleet of U-boats when Germany invaded Poland two weeks after Marita was born and was subsequently taken prisoner after his ship was captured; he was interned in a POW camp in England.[2] Her mother, who was bor
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Cuba&#;s Fidel Castro Dies at 90
Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century rule, has died at age
Castro&#;s reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The bearded revolutionary, who survived a crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as dozens, possibly hundreds, of assassination plots, died eight years after ill health forced him to formally hand power over to his younger brother Raul, who announced his death late Friday on state television.
Castro overcame imprisonment at the hands of dictator Fulgencio Batista, exile in Mexico and a disastrous start to his rebellion before triumphantly riding into Havana in January to become, at age 32, the youngest leader in Latin America. For decades, he