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4 unusual facts about Fidel


Cecilia Suárez

She has since been in films such as Sexo, pudor y lágrimas, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Travesía, The Air I Breathe, Dreaming of Julia and Wash and Wear, and television series such as Todo por amor, Fidel, For the People and Capadocia.

Fidel

Fidel Castro (born 1926), Cuban communist revolutionary and politician

Vielle, a musical instrument and forerunner of the fiddle

The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution

This has been “highly recommended” by Library Journal for “remarkable insight into the fate of Cuba after Fidel.”


Alfredo M. Santos

Then Captain Santos was the most decorated Unit Commander of the 1st Regular Division in the memorable Bataan campaign, even dubbed by Commanding General, Brigadier General Fidel V. Segundo, as the "Hammer of the Division" when he brilliantly outmaneuvered and outsmarted the enemy during their attempt to pocket their area.

Angel Castro

Ángel Castro y Argiz (1875–1956), father of Cuban leaders Raúl and Fidel Castro

Ángel Castro y Argiz

Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (Láncara, Lugo Province, Spain, December 5, 1875—October 21, 1956) was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raúl Castro.

Ann Louise Bardach

She is also the editor of The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro as well as Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion and she serves on the Brookings Institution's Cuba Study Project.

Armando Hart

In January 2005, Armando Hart wrote an article on Joseph Stalin, in which he denounced the ideas of Stalinism and its practice, while defending the ideas of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Leon Trotsky.

Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro

In September 1960, Momo Salvatore Giancana, a successor of Al Capone's in the Chicago Outfit, and Miami Syndicate leader Santo Trafficante, who were both on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list at that time, were indirectly contacted by the CIA about the possibility of Fidel Castro assassination.

Cuba–Soviet Union relations

The Cuban Revolution which propelled Fidel Castro to power on January 1, 1959, initially attracted little attention in Moscow.

Fidel Martínez

He showed his skills in the 2007 Pan American Games held in Brazil, where the Ecuadorian soccer team won the gold medal, and Fidel was a key player for the team.

Fidel Mondragón

Fidel Eduardo Mondragón Palomo (born February 24, 1981 in Jiquilisco) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Isidro Metapán in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Fidél Pálffy

Count Fidél Pálffy de Erdőd (6 May 1895, Szentgyörgy/Svätý Jur – 2 March 1946, Budapest) was a Hungarian nobleman who emerged as a leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary.

Fidel Roig Matons

Fidel Roig Matons (born Fidel Enric Jaume Roig i Matons, Girona, Catalonia, May 27, 1887 - Mendoza, Argentina, Argentina, May 26, 1977) was a Catalan painter and musician.

Fidel Surco

Fidel Andrés Surco Cañasaca is a Senator from La Paz department in Bolivia's Plurinational Legislative Assembly from the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples.

Hermann Winterhalter

Hermann Fidel Winterhalter (23 September 1808 – 24 February 1891) was a German painter, younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806-73).

Instituto de Banca y Comercio

It was founded by Fidel Alonso Valls, and is currently owned by Leeds Equity Partners.

Kathleen Weaver

Following the dissolution of her marriage to Francovich in 1986, she became associated with and later married painter, poster and printmaker, KPFA Radio public events producer, and co-founder of Black Oak Books, Bob Baldock— one of only two North Americans who went from the mainland in March, 1958, to join Fidel Castro’s own 26th of July Group as a combatant in the Sierra Maestra of Cuba.

Luis Andres Vargas Gomez

He was allowed to rejoin his wife in exile when civil rights activist Jesse Jackson convinced Fidel Castro to release Vargas and 25 other political prisoners on June 28, 1984.

Maheu

Robert Maheu, an American businessman who was implicated in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro

Mario Chanes de Armas

He was a veteran of the attack on the Moncada barracks in July 1953 and served time in Batista's New Model Prison on the Isle of Pines with fellow revolutionary Fidel Castro.

National Revolutionary Militias

The graduation of the University Militia in January 1960 was done with an ascent up Pico Turquino, where they were joined by Fidel Castro, Celia Sánchez and other revolutionary leaders.

Norberto Collado Abreu

Collado Abreu captained the Granma, which carried a total of 82 prominent supporters of the Cuban Revolution, including Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Che Guevara, from Mexico to its landing site in Granma Province in western Cuba.

Paramilitarism in Colombia

The oldest of these, Fidel, had accumulated a fortune illegally smuggling emeralds, robbing people, and trafficking cocaine and marijuana.

Puros Trankazos

The album includes tracks recorded by several artist from the Regional Mexican genre, such as Julian Álvarez y su Norteño Banda, Voz de Mando, Vagón Chicano, Enigma Norteño, Larry Hernández, Los Horóscopos de Durango, Chuy Lizárraga and his Banda Tierra Sinaloense, Violento, Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizárraga, El Chapo, Fidel Rueda and Alfredo Olivas.

Ramón Castro

Ramón Castro Ruz, figure in Cuban politics, and the brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro

Roman Catholicism in Cuba

Pope Benedict XVI visited in 2012, meeting both Fidel and Raúl Castro.

Safaricom

It is widely believed that the former regime arm twisted Vodafone to shed off the 5% as a kickback to high-ranking officials in the regime.A WikiLeaks report stated that it was once owned by Nicholas Biwott,Charles Fidel Marshall,Gideon Moi and The Post Office.

Sandy Pollack

Sandy married Terry Cannon, son of prize-winning novelist Josephine Johnson and Grant Cannon editor in chief of the Farm Quarterly, in 1971 after having met in Cuba while both were attending a celebration to commemorate the disastrous July 26, 1953 armed attack on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba by a band of rebels orchestrated by Fidel Castro.

Scarface: The World Is Yours

However, the band's drummer, Tommy Lee, played the role of the manager of Fidel's Records and Tapes.

Seumas Milne

Milne described the restoration of the sight of Mario Terán, the former Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara, by Cuban doctors "paid for by revolutionary Venezuela in the radicalised Bolivia of Evo Morales", one of "1.4 million free eye operations carried out by Cuban doctors in 33 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa", as "an emblem both of the humanity of Fidel Castro and Guevara's legacy" and the transformation of Latin America.

Timeline of the Cuban Revolution

It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on January 1, 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were seized by rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raúl Castro and Huber Matos, respectively .


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