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	CNN Cold War - Profile: Fidel Castro Ruz
		Castro first challenged the Batista regime in court, but in 1953 organized an unsuccessful rebel force.
		Castro was arrested, tried and put in jail until 1955.
		Castro and his followers next began a guerrilla war against the corrupt and by now very unpopular Batista regime.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/castro (490 words)

	Castro SF Home Page - The Complete Local Guide
		Castro SF Home Page - The Complete Local Guide
		The Metro bar has found a new home at 2124 Market St. (former location of The Expansion Bar).
		Explore Castro SF with handy cross reference indexes and maps.
	www.castrosf.org (88 words)

	Fidel Castro
		Fidel Castro, the illegitimate son of a successful Creole sugar plantation owner, was born in Cuba in 1926.
		Castro was lucky that the lieutenant who arrested him ignored orders to have him executed and instead delivered him to the nearest civilian prison.
		Castro claimed the national unity that had been created would be destroyed by the competing political parties in an election.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDcastroF.htm (5170 words)

	Fidel Castro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castro returned to Cuba and married Mirta Díaz Balart, a student from a wealthy Cuban family where he was exposed to the lifestyle of the Cuban elite.
		Although there is disagreement over why Castro and his brother, Raúl, were not executed on capture as many of their fellow militants were, there is evidence that an officer recognized Castro from his university days and treated the captured rebels compassionately, despite the unofficial order to have the leader executed.
		Castro was known to be a friend of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and was an honorary pall bearer at Trudeau's funeral in October 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fidel_Castro (9062 words)

	Castro, Fidel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		As a student leader and lawyer, Castro opposed the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar.
		Castro and 11 others, including his brother Raúl and Ernesto Che” Guevara, survived the initial encounter and hid in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra.
		Castro’s goal of extending the Cuban revolution to other Latin American countries suffered a setback with the capture and death (1967) of Che” Guevara in Bolivia.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Castro-F.html (531 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Castro County was formally organized by an election on December 21, and Dimmitt was designated the county seat.
		Population rose in 1950 to 5,417, to 8,923 in 1960, to 10,394 in 1970, and to 10,556 in 1980.
		Castro County was thus the last Texas county to acquire a paved road.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/hcc8.html (1758 words)

	638 ways to kill Castro \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Another aborted plot related to Castro's underwater activities was for a diving-suit to be prepared for him that would be infected with a fungus that would cause a chronic and debilitating skin disease.
		According to this woman, Castro had already guessed that she was aiming to kill him and he duly offered her his own pistol.
		This former lover is far from the only person to have failed to poison Castro: at one point the CIA prepared bacterial poisons to be placed in Castro's hand-kerchief or in his tea and coffee, but nothing came of it.
	www.guardian.co.uk /cuba/story/0,,1835930,00.html (1143 words)

	USATODAY.com - Castro says he's stable after surgery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Castro expressed his gratitude for all the good wishes he's received from government leaders and supporters around the world, and called on Cubans to remain calm and maintain their daily routines.
		Cubans were stunned when Castro's secretary read a letter on state television Monday night announcing their leader was temporarily turning over power to his younger brother, the island's defense minister and the president's designated successor.
		Castro seemed optimistic of recovery, asking in his letter that celebrations scheduled for his 80th birthday be postponed until Dec. 2, the 50th anniversary of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-07-31-cuba-castro_x.htm?csp=34 (1289 words)

	Fidel Castro
		Castro was captured and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
		Angered by Castro's actions, President Kennedy, authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban dictator in 1961, known as the Bay of Pigs invasion.
		In the end, Castro had little effect on the outcome of the crisis and felt betrayed by the U.S.S.R. The crisis solved few of Cuba's problems and left the country to deal with the United States alone.
	library.thinkquest.org /11046/people/castro.html (429 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 11/13/2006 \| Castro has 18 months to live, U.S. believes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The information is not based on insider reports but rather on publicly available materials such as videos and still photographs of Castro released by the communist government, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
		The officials said the government is convinced that Castro suffers from terminal cancer but does not know what type of cancer or what part of his body it is affecting.
		Castro's last public statement was Tuesday, when he congratulated Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega -- a close ally -- for his victory in Nicaragua's presidential election.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/15998493.htm (804 words)

	Castro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, on his family's sugar plantation near Biran, Oriente province, Cuba.
		Castro intended to campaign for a parliamentary seat in the election of 1952 but General Fulgencio Batista overthrew the government of President Carlos Prio Socarras in a coup d'etat and canceled the election.
		Castro went to court and charged the dictator with violating the constitution.
	www.cbv.ns.ca /dictator/castro.html (695 words)

	American Experience \| Fidel Castro \| People & Events \| PBS
		Castro's anti-American outburst was partially a response to American policy toward the Batista regime.
		Fidel Castro came of age in a remote region of Cuba dominated by two sugar mills, the Preston and the Boston, owned by the United Fruit Company, a symbol of American dominance in Latin America.
		Castro's Jesuit teachers imbued the young Fidel with the idea of Hispanidad, stressing the superiority of Spanish values of honor and pride as opposed to the materialistic values of the Anglo-Saxon world.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/p_castro.html (794 words)

	NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL - TERRORISM
		Castro sent military instructors and advisors into Palestinian bases; cooperated with Libya in the founding of World Mathaba, a terrorist movement; and established close military cooperation and exchanges with Iraq, Libya, Southern Yemen, the Polisario Front for the Liberation of Western Sahara, the PLO and others in the Middle East.
		Castro established relations with the Algerian FLN; official and public support was extended, weapons were shipped to the FLN through Morocco (1960-1961).
		Castro refused to join the other Ibero-American heads of state in condemning ETA terrorism at the 2000 Ibero-American Summit in Panamá and slammed Mexico for its support of the Summit's statement against terrorism.
	www.netforcuba.org /Terrorism-EN/Terrorism/Main.htm (5292 words)

	Castro ballistic at rich 'slur' - World - smh.com.au
		Castro went on television brandishing a copy of the US-based magazine, with the president of Cuba's Central Bank at his side, to tell Cubans the story was a "repugnant slander" by a capitalist publication.
		Castro, in power since a leftist revolution in 1959, says his net worth is nil and that he earns only 900 Cuban pesos ($A53) a month as head of state.
		The magazine ranked Castro seventh, ahead of Queen Elizabeth II with some $US500 million ($A658 million) in estates, gems and a stamp collection built by her grandfather, but not Buckingham Palace or the crown jewels.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/castro-ballistic-at-rich-slur/2006/05/16/1147545308536.html (647 words)

	Castro Speech Database - LANIC
		"Castro Speech" is a database containing the full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro, based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency responsible for monitoring broadcast and print media in countries throughout the world.
		The files are organized by year and with files named according to the date of the speech, interview, or event (e.g., 13 July 1987 = 19870713).
		Granma Archives Index, or other collections of speeches by Fidel Castro, such as the Discursos e Intervenciones de Fidel Castro collection.
	www.lanic.utexas.edu /la/cb/cuba/castro.html (444 words)

	History of the Castro Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Castro Theatre was built in 1922 by pioneer San Francisco theatre entrepreneurs, the Nasser brothers, who started with a nickelodeon in 1908 in the Castro neighborhood.
		The Castro's designer was Timothy L. Pflueger (1894-1946) who went on to become a famous Bay Area architect.
		Additionally, sound quality was improved with installation of new speakers behind the screen, new stage lighting was installed, the theatre received a new PA system and the auditorium was wired to accommodate modern audio and video presentations.
	www.thecastrotheatre.com /history.html (513 words)

	Fidel Castro
		Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926.
		Castro was a member of the Ortodoxo Party, a social-democrat party, and strongly criticized the government of
		Castro has also successfully assisted foreign revolutions in Angola and Ethiopia.
	library.thinkquest.org /18355/fidel_castro.html (328 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Cuelgas de Castro, a Lipan Apache chief in Texas during the first half of the nineteenth century, was probably born in the 1790s; he was a leading Apache chief at the time Mexico won independence from Spain (1821).
		As a friend of the white settlers in Texas, Castro allied his people with the Austin colonists and the Republic of Texasqv in an effort to defend the Lipans from the Comanches.
		Castro and his people returned home after the successful battle and took no part in Gen. Joaquín de Arredondo'sqv subsequent defeat of the republican forces on the Medina River.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fca92.html (529 words)

	Castro County, Texas TX, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Castro County is one of 254 counties in Texas.
		This was a decrease of -7.22% from the 2000 census.
		This was a decline of 6.8% from 1997.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22610 (411 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| San Francisco's Castro Theatre
		The Castro Theatre is the crown jewel of this new "religion." San Franciscans have become so comfortable with this slightly dusty but still grand temple that they tend to take it for granted.
		But the Castro has been a crucial component of modern gay life in a way that extends far beyond the borders of the famous neighborhood in which it resides.
		The Castro launched the first major commercial retrospectives to stars and studios — 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., among others — and accomplished the unthinkable in persuading studios to strike new prints of old movies long since abandoned as unprofitable.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /17/06_castro.html (1220 words)

	www.myspace.com/castromusic
		Castro are a 4 piece pop-punk band from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
		Blending catchy riffs with melodic versus and anthem choruses, Castro break away from the stereotyped three chord punk rock and bring something new and exciting to the scene.
		Castro began life as a four piece cover band playing local pubs, but with various line-up changes they soon started writing their own music and recorded their debut EP in the summer of 2005.
	www.myspace.com /castromusic (1079 words)

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		Castro's Revolution was a stealth revolution, done in stages, dividing and conquering till he had the whole prize.
		Castro had saddled Rebel army Comandante Camilo Cienfuegos with the unhappy task of arresting his friend Huber Matos after the latter's "treason." Cienfuegos was right up there with the Castro brothers and Che in the Revolutionary hierarchy.
		Castro's July 26th Movement (his anti-Batista revolutionary group, named after the failed attack on Cuba's Moncada military barracks on July 26th 1953 that touched off his rebellion against Batista) was actually a pioneer in 20th century terrorism.
	www.discoverthenetworks.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=912 (7610 words)

	Castro Says Bush Plotting to Kill Him (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Castro has accused past U.S. administrations of seeking to assassinate him, and during his early years in power there were numerous documented cases of U.S.-sponsored attempts on his life.
		Castro is saying this so when he assumes room temperature the person to take over his office can simply continue the America bashing.
		Castro closes his eyes and remembers the good old days when an American president was foolish and weak.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1068539/posts (1710 words)

	Critics Assail Fidel Castro's 'Sickening' Grip on Hollywood Celebs
		He described Castro's rule as a "ruthless dictatorship that denies people the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, the freedom of association," and said he cannot understand how celebrities miss these points.
		Castro is a "sadistic monster," Horowitz said and "the longest surviving dictator in the world." Celebrities gloss over these realities, he contended.
		Landau did not deny that Castro's rule has included suppression of a free press and multi-party electoral process, but said like in any revolution, "they broke a lot of eggs" to achieve their goals.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/cuba/uscuba/529.html (2329 words)

	Amazon.com: The Real Fidel Castro: Books: Leycester Coltman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is hard, writing the biography of one such individual as Fidel castro is. Wheter one likes it or not Fidel Castro is living history, and when dealing with history one has to be extremly careful not to stray too much from path that was laid before him.
		In the vast sea of biographies and "critical overviews" of Fidel Castro Coltmans biographiy reads itself easily, though not being able to resist urge for comments, still it keeps itself on decent distance allowing the reader to form his own oppinion by consulting the facts that are presented in the book.
		Castro is a powerful, dominant man who insists he must always be right and usually gets his way and this fact was evident from his early childhood.
	www.amazon.com /Real-Fidel-Castro-Leycester-Coltman/dp/0300101880 (3160 words)

	Stories Tagged 'castro' » Netscape.com
		News – Fidel Castro will be in "perfect shape" to run for re-election to parliament next spring, the first step toward securing yet another term as Cuba's president, National Assembly head Ricardo Alarcon said Thursday.
		News – Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who dropped from public view six months ago after undergoing emergency surgery, is recovering and is still in charge of Cuba, a senior government official said on Thursday.
		News – Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says that Cuban leader Fidel Castro is "battling for his life" - Mr Chavez spoke at the Latin American summit in Brazil in a rare admission of the state of Mr Castro's health.
	www.netscape.com /tag/castro (886 words)

	Worldandnation: He looks like Fidel, but gets more laughs
		Another long-time Castro imitator was hired by the U.S. government for its controversial Miami-based TV and radio broadcasts directed at Cuba.
		Castro will turn 80 in August and the CIA recently concluded that he has Parkinson’s, a finding the Cuban leader vehemently rejects.
		Castro had just taken power and Roblan was asked to perform his part in an avant-garde play about the revolution.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/05/06/Worldandnation/He_looks_like_Fidel__.shtml (1515 words)

	Gloves Off Against Castro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While this reaffirmation of a strong stand against Castro’s dictatorship was made in the name of the captive Cuban populace, it also serves to protect American security.
		Castro’s response was to ignore the President’s proposal and jail some 80 independent human rights activists and journalists.
		To date, Castro hasn’t changed his policies, yet the U.S. travel industry and agribusiness is pressuring a growing number of Congressmen to lift sanctions against the Cuban regime.
	www.heritage.org /Research/LatinAmerica/wm347.cfm (692 words)

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