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Feb 3, 2018 · The late dictator's childhood home near Havana is now a museum. The Cuban leader grew up on his father Ángel Castro’s 25,000-acre sugar plantation (called Las Manacas farm) in the small town of Birán, Cuba—about 500 miles from Havana.
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Aug 13, 2016 · La BBC viajó al sitio en que creció y habló con su medio hermano y una historiadora sobre la juventud del hombre que marcó la historia de Cuba.
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This gaggle of attractive wooden buildings on expansive grounds constitutes a pueblito (small town) and makes a fascinating excursion. It appears as a backwater today, but once sat on the camino real, Cuba's main east–west road in colonial times.
5 days ago · Fidel Castro (born August 13, 1926, near Birán, Cuba—died November 25, 2016, Cuba) was the political leader of Cuba (1959–2008) who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
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Jul 30, 2010 · Twenty minutes later, past a tiny hamlet called Birán, we arrive at a remote farm overlooked by mountains, set in sun-kissed meadows. There is no one there save a couple of guards who send for a...
Dec 3, 2016 · December 3, 2016 at 3:19 p.m. EST. People visit the Castro family home-turned-museum in late November in Biran, eastern Cuba, birthplace of the late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and his...
