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Nov 26, 2016 · Mr. Castro leads an armed uprising against Cuba’s military dictator, Fulgencio Batista, with an attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Mr. Castro and his fellow revolutionaries...
Nov 26, 2016 · Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90 - The New York Times. Mr. Castro brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, bedeviled 11 American presidents and briefly pushed...
Although despising Argentina's right-wing military junta, Castro supported them in the 1982 Falklands War against Britain and offered military aid to the Argentinians.
- Comandante en Jefe
- PCC (from 1965)
- 1953–2016
- Cuban Blackmail, 50 Years After The Missile Crisis
- 50th Anniversary of The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Details Emerge of Cold War Nuclear Threat by Cuba
- Telegram from Fidel Castro to N. S. Khrushchev
The past decades have shown that the Castro brothers' behavior in October 1962 was perfectly characteristic.
By Jeb Bush and Frank Calzon Oct. 23, 2012 7:16 p.m. ET With this week marking the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, Americans are recalling the 13 days in October 1962 when the Soviet Union and Cuba's Fidel Castro brought the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon. But in assessing the crisis, and President John F. Kennedy's decisions over those 13 days, it is equally important to consider what has happened since. Using what the late U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick called the...
October 14, 2012 [Excerpt] MARY SAROTTE:I’d like to go over to Brian, who in a previous life before he became an author and started teaching at the University of Miami, was the principal Cuban analyst for the CIA and spent a great deal of his life thinking about what Castro was doing, Castro’s motives. So I’d be interested in what you believe Castr...
By William J. Broad In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow dissuaded him by patiently explaining how the radioactive cloud resulting from such a strike would also devastate Cuba. The cold war was then in one of its chilliest phases. Presi...
Dear Comrade KHRUSHCHEV, In analyzing the situation that has arisen through the information at our disposal, it seems that aggression in the next 24 to 72 hours is almost inevitable. Two variants of this aggression are possible: 1. The most likely one is an air attack on certain installations, with the aim of destroying those installations. 2. A le...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Fidel Castro was a communist revolutionary who established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in...
Apr 3, 2014 · Beginning in 1958, Fidel Castro and his forces began a campaign of guerrilla warfare which led to the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. As the country's new leader, Castro...
Nov 26, 2016 · After Mr. Castro provided economic and military assistance to the leftist government of Grenada in the early 1980s, President Ronald Reagan argued that an airport under construction on the island ...
