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Lowering taxes, setting land aside for the poor, and trying to help his people are all what Fidel Castro did. He was good to his people, but had ties with the Soviet Union. The CIA wanted to kill him because of his ties with the Soviet Union, and the United States wanted ties with Cuba. Fidel Castro was the Cuban prime minister, led a revolution, became a Cuban leader, and he escaped death (Fidel Castro, Famous People J1).

Fidel Castro Ruz was born August 13, 1926. He was born near Biran, Oriente Province, Cuba, on his family’s sugar plantation. Fidel Castro was illegitimate and his parents were not going to send him to school, but he wanted to go so much that he begged his parents until they let him go to school when he was six or seven. He studied in Jesuit schools in Oriente and Havana, Cuba. He did best in agriculture, history, and Spanish, and he entered law school in 1945 at the University of Havana. Activism, gang fights, and violence were common at the University. Castro was soon part of one of the gangs, Union Insurreccional Revolucionaria, and joined the activists. The police thought he murdered a rival student leader, but they never proved anything. Castro wasn’t a well-known student leader, but he had a reputation for personal ambition and public speaking ability. He was beaten several times in student elections (Fidel Castro, Encyclopedia of World Biography J1).

Castro started to practice law after he graduated from law school in 1950, and Castro became a candidate for Cuba’s House of Representatives in the election of 1952 because he had strong interest in politics. A successful revolution that General Fulgencio Batista led, overthrew the previous Cuban government canceling the elections. From the start of Bat...

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..., and a leader of a revolution. Fidel Castro has escaped death 638 times, and had a 32 year term as the president of Cuba, but when he got sick at age 81 he let all of his powers go to his brother (Simkin J1).

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Brown, Warren. Fidel Castro Cuban Revolutionary. Brookfield: Millbrook Press, 1994.

Fidel Castro. 18 Feb. 2008. Famous People. 21 Jan. 2011.

Fidel Castro. 13 Aug. 2001. Encyclopedia of World Biography. 21 Jan. 2011

Rosenberg, Jennifer. Fidel Castro: A Biography of Fidel Castro. 19 Feb. 2008. About.com. 21 Jan. 2011

Simkin, John. Fidel Castro. 19 Feb. 2008. Spartacus Educational. 21 Jan. 2011

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