Fidel Castro Paper

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Castro used guerilla warfare to successfully overthrow Cuban leader Batista,

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Fidel Castro was born near Birán, Cuba,

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Fidel Castro was the third of six children,

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Fidel was a military leader first then became the president of Cuba

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Fidel was formally recognized by his father and his name was changed from Ruz to Castro.

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He served as prime minister until 1976, when he became president of Cuba.

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He was born August 13th 1926

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Was educated is a private jesuit boarding school

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After his graduation in 1950, Castro began to practice law and became a member of the reformist Cuban People's Party

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Castro created a one-party government to exercise dictatorial control over all aspects of Cuba's political, economic, and cultural life.

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Castro remained premier until 1976, when a new constitution created a National Assembly and Castro became president of that body's State Council.

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Communist Party of Cuba—the only legal political party—and he continued to exercise unquestioned and total control over the government.

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In 1980 Castro released a flood of immigrants to the United States when he opened the port of Mariel for five months.

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In 2003 the National Assembly confirmed Castro as president for another five-year term.

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In late 1993 Castro's daughter sought asylum in the United States, where she openly criticized her father's rule.

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Many members of the Cuban upper and middle classes felt betrayed by these measures and chose to immigrate to the United States.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.

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the Cuban economy, however, failed to achieve significant growth or to reduce its dependence on the country's chief export, cane sugar.

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About 125,000 made this journey during six months in 1980, leaving from the port of Mariel. Castro's response to the Mariel Boatlift, as this episode came to be known, was instructive. The official media vilified those who had chosen to go and try and find new lives in America.

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Castro managed to preserve Cuba's welfare system, despite the economic crisis caused by the loss of support from the former Soviet Union.

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Castro's view of Cuba's people was far from benign. Those who rejected him were vilified, while those who backed him were patronised.

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Cuba's regime controls every newspaper, television channel and radio station, and restricts access to the internet. Schools and government offices are allowed to link to the web, most private homes are not.

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Deprived of the chance to vote against Castro in free elections, hundreds of thousands of Cubans voted with their feet - or rather their paddles - by fleeing across the water to Florida.

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One state newspaper called them "criminals, lumpen and anti-social elements, loafers and parasites''.

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according to World Bank figures, infant mortality in Cuba was seven per 1,000 live births, compared with 30 in the Caribbean as a whole, and primary school enrolment was close to 100pc.

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Before coming to power Fidel Castro used his power to influence Cubans to have faith in him and support him and the revolution to overthrow the Batista government.