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May 16, 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 16, 2024 • Article History. Fidel Castro. In full: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. Born: August 13, 1926, near Birán, Cuba. Died: November 25, 2016, Cuba (aged 90) Title / Office: president (1976-2008), Cuba. prime minister (1959-1976), Cuba. Founder: 26th of July Movement.
Interment date. 4 December 2016. Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Council of State, Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 ( CST) on the evening of 25 November 2016, at the age of 90. His brother, the then-President of the State Council and then-First Secretary Raúl Castro, made an announcement ...
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Nov 26, 2016 · Castro died at age 90 on November 25, 2016, Cuban state media reported. Click through to see more photos from the life of the controversial Cuban leader who ruled for nearly half a century ...
Nov 26, 2016 · Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader,...
His death came nine months after his older brother Ramón died at the age of 91 in February. Fidel Castro was cremated the next day. A funeral procession travelled 900 kilometres (560 mi) along the island's central highway from Havana to Santiago de Cuba, tracing in reverse the route of the "Freedom Caravan" of January 1959.
Nov 26, 2016 · "The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 hours this evening (03:29 GMT Saturday)," he said. "Towards victory, always!" he added, using a revolutionary slogan. A period of...
Nov 26, 2016 · HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro, who led his bearded rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, has died at age 90.
