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Apr 29, 2024 · The youngest of three brothers, Raúl Castro was born to a Spanish father and a Cuban mother. He embraced socialism as a young adult and belonged to a communist youth group.
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Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz was born in Birán, Cuba, the legal son of a Spanish immigrant father, Ángel Castro who was 55 at the time of his birth, and a Cuban-born mother of Canarian parentage, Lina Ruz. Raúl is the youngest of three brothers: Ramón, Fidel, and himself. [16]
Apr 2, 2014 · As a young man, Raúl attended college in Santiago and Havana and studied social sciences. Unlike his brother, Raúl proved to be a mediocre student, however, and after leaving school, he went to...
Raul Castro is also a dedicated advocate for education and has worked to improve access to schooling and promote literacy in Cuba during his time in office. Personal Life & Legacy On 26 January 1959, Raul Castro married Vilma Espin, a chemical engineer from Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, and a post-graduate from MIT in Cambridge ...
Aug 13, 2017 · Raúl Castro (1931-) is the current President of Cuba and brother of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro. Unlike his brother, Raúl is quiet and reserved and spent most of his life in his older brother’s shadow.
His closest and most trusted friend was Raúl Castro, his younger brother by five years and longtime armed forces minister. Although Raúl had a vastly contrasting, almost polar opposite personality to Castro, Sánchez described Raúl as complementing Castro's personality in all the ways that he is not.
Castro was one of fourteen children born to his father Francisco Dominguez Castro, a deep sea diver in San Jose del Cabo, Baja California and later a miner in Cananea, and mother Rosario Acosta, who had a third grade education but taught her husband to read and write.
