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Fidel Castro: Tutte le informazioni su Fidel Castro su Encyclopedia.it In pieno regime Batista, il 26 luglio del 1953 Fidel Castro, a capo di un gruppo di studenti armati, tenta un attacco alla caserma della Moncada. Castro constata poi che anche nel corpo militare si stanno verificando rotture, tanto che ordina l'arresto di molti esponenti dell'esercito, peraltro da lui stesso istituito. Castro consolidò il controllo della nazione nazionalizzando ulteriormente l'industria, confiscando i beni di proprietà straniera, collettivizzando l'agricoltura, ed emanando politiche che beneficiassero i lavoratori. www.encyclopedia.it /f/fi/fidel_castro.html   (2612 words)

Castro (Ruz), Fidel Alejandro - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Castro (Ruz), Fidel Alejandro Castro opposed the Batista dictatorship, and took part, with his brother Raúl, in an unsuccessful attack on the army barracks at Santiago de Cuba in 1953, but was arrested and imprisoned until 1955. Castro, whose movement merged with the Communist Party in 1961 and which drew in development aid from the USSR, espoused Marxism-Leninism until, in 1974, he rejected Marx's formula ‘from each according to his ability and to each according to his need’ and decreed that each Cuban should ‘receive according to his work’. Of wealthy parentage, Castro was educated at Jesuit schools and, after studying law at the University of Havana, gained a reputation through his work for poor clients. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Castro+(Ruz),+Fidel+Alejandro   (646 words)

FIDEL CASTRO Fidel Castro was born August 13, 1926 in Oriente province, in eastern Cuba, to a prosperous landowning family. Fidel Castro holds a number of formal titles: Maximum Leader of the Revolution, Commander in Chief of the Cuban Armed Forces, President of the Republic, Chairman of the Council of State, Chairman of the Council of  Ministers, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and is also a member of the National Assembly. With a multi-class base, the populist nature of the revolution meant that the Cuban bourgeoisie identified Fidel Castro with a return to constitutional rule, and the reaffirmation of civil and political rights. www.soc.duke.edu /~nvaldes/Cuba/fidel.htm   (2411 words)

Fidel Castro Castro's economic policies had caused some concerns in Washington that Castro was a Communist with an allegiance to the Soviet Union. Castro himself is famous for his long and detailed speeches which often last several hours (he used to hold the world record for the longest speech) and contain much data and historical references. Castro became prime minister in February 1960, but friction with the US soon developed when the new government began expropriating property owned by major U.S. corporations (United Fruit in particular), proposing compensation based on property tax valuations that for many years the same companies had managed to keep artificially low. www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Fidel_Castro   (6076 words)

Castro, Fidel on Encyclopedia.com CASTRO, FIDEL [Castro, Fidel] (Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz), 1926-, Cuban revolutionary, premier of Cuba (1959-76), president of the Council of State and of the Council of Ministers (1976-). Fidel Castro avant son départ pour Cuba Venu dans son traditionnel uniforme vert-olive, le président cubain Fidel Castro a. (Juan Carlos Tabío, director de cine cubano)(TT: Fidel Castro's closed door debate with intellectuals over 'hypercritical' films about the revolution) (TA: Juan Caros Tabío, Cuban film director)(Interview) www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/castro-f1.asp   (1709 words)

Fidel Castro Fidel Castro, the illegitimate son of a successful Creole sugar plantation owner, was born in Cuba in 1926. Fidel's compulsive urge for personal control of whatever undertaking struck his fancy was not motivated by a mere lust for power but by the conviction that he was especially endowed with the wisdom for fulfilling the mission. Castro was lucky that the lieutenant who arrested him ignored orders to have him executed and instead delivered him to the nearest civilian prison. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDcastroF.htm   (5154 words)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Sports (Fidel Castro) Cubans know that Fidel Castro was no ballplayer, though he dressed himself in the uniform of a spurious, tongue-in-cheek team called Barbudos (Bearded Ones) after he came to power in 1959 and played a few exhibition games. Let it be known here that Fidel Castro was never scouted by any major-league team, and is not known to have enjoyed the kind of success in baseball that could have brought a scout's attention to him. Future Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was once given a tryout by the Washington Senators baseball team. www.snopes.com /sports/baseball/castro.asp   (909 words)

Castro's crimes Fidel Castro's regime is guilty of numerous documentable crimes stretching from the jungles of Peru to the deserts of Ethiopia. In June 1991 at a meeting between Fidel Castro and several members of various communist organizations, it was agreed to set up the infamous Rapid Response Brigades. In addition, Castro has had a long tradition of imprisoning homosexuals and transexuals as "undesirables." Imprisonment is often based on mere suspicion and rumor. www.fiu.edu /~fcf/cascrime.html   (756 words)

Fidel Castro falls after speech, breaking knee and causing hairline fracture in arm Cuban President Fidel Castro tripped on a step and tumbled to the ground after leaving the stage at a graduation ceremony, fracturing a knee and arm but quickly returning to say that he was "all in one piece." Fidel Castro falls after speech, breaking knee and causing hairline fracture in arm Castro's fall after a Wednesday night speech in the central city of Santa Clara was certain to launch a new round of speculation about the 78-year-old communist leader's health and the eventual succession after his 45 years of rule. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/21/international0937EDT0520.DTL   (760 words)

CNN Cold War - Profile: Fidel Castro Ruz Castro and his followers next began a guerrilla war against the corrupt and by now very unpopular Batista regime. 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. www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/castro   (490 words)

American Experience Fidel Castro People & Events PBS 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. In 1948, Fidel Castro married Mirta Díaz Balart, the daughter of a lawyer for the United Fruit Company. www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/p_castro.html   (794 words)

BBC NEWS Americas Castro mocks Parkinson's report In front of a group of Havana University students, Fidel Castro, looking fit and in good spirits, mocked the latest reports that he is suffering from a debilitating illness. Cuban President Fidel Castro has portrayed as wishful thinking reports from the United States that he is suffering from Parkinson's Disease. But Cuban officials say that those close to the veteran leader can only marvel at his stamina - and Fidel Castro himself says that anyone who hopes that the Cuban revolution will come to an end when he dies will be proved wrong. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4448048.stm   (263 words)

Amazon.com: The Real Fidel Castro: Books: Leycester Coltman In July 1992 Fidel Castro, then aged sixty-four, visited for the first time the small stone house where his father was born, in the north-west of Spain. 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. Castro's life is full of the normal stories and anecdotes and gives an average account of his life, revealing nothing new but exposing nothing less. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300101880?v=glance   (2785 words)

Amazon.com: Biography - Fidel Castro (1996) : Video Fidel Castro is a survivor, in many ways he is a person of exceptional political skills. Fidel Castro led a remarkable 3-year fight to rescue his country from a corrupt regime. Castro's removal of the "sin capitol" feature of Havana was very popular with the Cubans, developing a sense of Cuban national pride. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006QHT?v=glance   (1726 words)

Fidel Castro Fidel Castro is a bastard, the product of his wealthy father fooling around with the maid. Dozens of Castro’s men were killed in battle, and Fidel was charged with treason. Castro’s (and thus Cuba's) relations with the US have been icy ever since that little spat over the Russian nukes in 1960. www.nndb.com /people/118/000023049   (299 words)

FrontPage magazine.com :: Monster by Humberto Fontova The off-duty Caral sat on his doorstep with his 5 year old son on his knee when Fidel Castro approached and shot him point-blank in the chest. Castro's Revolution was a stealth revolution, done in stages, dividing and conquering till he had the whole prize. Now the Castro regime, needing new pretext for mass-jailings and the cowing of the population, turned it's police loose on "anti-social elements," on "deviants" and on "delinquents." Youths were the target here, with special emphasis on long-hairs, rock and roll listeners and--especially-- homosexuals. www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18739   (7172 words)

Critics Assail Fidel Castro's 'Sickening' Grip on Hollywood Celebs -- 12/17/2002 Castro is a "sadistic monster," Horowitz said and "the longest surviving dictator in the world." Celebrities gloss over these realities, he contended. 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. Last week, one of the stars of Fidel, Belafonte, was back in Cuba for a film festival and told reporters that "every day, more and more Americans are opposed to the war machine being driven by George W. Bush," according to a report from Cuba's state-run Radio Havana. www.cnsnews.com /ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200212\NAT20021217a.html   (2471 words)

CNN.com - Castro: U.S. hasn't responded to Katrina offer - Sep 5, 2005 Castro, a longtime adversary of the United States, initially offered to send 1,100 doctors and at least 26 tons of supplies and equipment, but the Communist leader announced Sunday during a televised speech that he had increased the number of physicians to 1,586. Castro has named the Cuban rescue team the Henry Reeve Brigade in honor of an American who fought with Cuba's rebel forces during the Cuban War of Independence against Spain that began in 1895. At that time, Castro said he would not accept help from Washington because of the U.S. trade embargo against his country. www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/americas/09/05/katrina.cuba   (346 words)

Waiting For Fidel (DVD) - Fidel Castro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.. Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro's face, with its trademark beard, has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to all but a few. Expecting to interview Fidel Castro, the group consists of filmmaker Michael Rubbo, broadcaster Goff Sterling, and the former socialist premier of Newfoundland, Joey Smallwood. This database includes speeches, interviews, etc., by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996. www.hotdealsrock.com /hot/waiting-for-fidel-dvd-3165544-osk   (443 words)

Fidel Castro - Wikimedia Commons Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has led Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he helped overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and turn Cuba into the first Socialist state in the Western Hemisphere. Fidel Castro, president of Cuba, at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 1960 Sept. 22 Fidel Castro arrives MATS Terminal, Washington, D.C., 1959 April 15 commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Fidel_Castro   (123 words)

Fidel Castro - Wikiquote Fidel Alejandro Castro Rúz (born 13 August 1926) Cuban head of state since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he helped overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista turning Cuba into the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere. Speech made by Castro on February 2, 2005 He held the title of premier until 1976, when he became president of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers. en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Fidel_Castro   (737 words)

Catherine Seipp on Castro on National Review Online The latest sign that PBS may be indeed moving away from reflexive lefty politics is its hardheaded and compelling new documentary Fidel Castro, which premieres Jan. 31 and is the first non-American biography in the network’s American Experience series. "If you have seen Fidel Castro portrayed as a Robin Hood, that was driven into the arms of the Soviet Union by the United States' unwillingness to accept Cuban nationalism, this film will portray Castro as a worse man," she responded. Khrushchev thought Castro was a madman and told him to back down; Castro called Khrushchev a bastard, but obeyed. www.nationalreview.com /seipp/seipp200501210759.asp   (890 words)

A Visit With Castro New evidence suggests that John and Robert Kennedy approved of a bizarre scheme to assassinate Fidel Castro at Ernest Hemingway's Cuban farm. However, Castro was mythic by this time, and the prospect of an hour or two with him was something to look forward to. The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro? www.thenation.com /doc/20040112/miller   (745 words)

Fidel Castro (I) Fidel Castro Ruz was the fifth of nine children born to Angel Castro,... Find where Fidel Castro is credited alongside another name Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Fidel Castro (I) www.imdb.com /name/nm0004242   (367 words)

Castro - Opinion Poll: When Will Fidel Castro Fall? Dr Fidel Castro's speech at the 50th World Health Assembly, May 1998. See what other voters have said about the timing of Fidel Castro's fall. Miguel Castro's blog about.NET and its effect on National Security, the Eco-system, and his daughter's sleeping patterns. www.iseeklinks.com /q/castro.htm   (141 words)

Fidel Castro History Archive February 2, 1961: L'Unita Interview with Fidel Castro: The Nature of Cuban Socialism www.marxists.org /history/cuba/archive/castro   (152 words)

Joao De Castro - Reviewscout.co.uk Fidel by Fidel: A New Interview With Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba (Great Issues of the Day, No 3) Fidel and Religion : Castro Talks on Revolution and Religion with Frei Betto Fidel by Fidel: A New Interview With Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba (Great Issues of the Day, No. 3) www.reviewscout.co.uk /Joao-De-Castro/3   (152 words)

dOc DVD Review: Fidel (2002) Fidel Castro, a man generally vilified as the controlling dictator of Cuba since 1959, would seem at first to be an odd choice as the subject of this mostly glowing bio-pic from director David Attwood. It's not until the final thirty minutes or so that Fidel begins to hint at what has become the more familiar dark elements of the leadership and ham-handed control of Castro, and the story jumps from 1965 to the Mariel boat lifts of 1980 in a heartbeat. The bulk of Fidel centers on the 1950s, when Castro went from an utopianistically thinking citizen to a political demagogue upon his ascension to power in 1959. www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/23649   (1248 words)

CRITICS ASSAIL FIDEL CASTRO'S 'SICKENING' GRIP ON HOLLYWOOD CELEBS It was Fidel Castro’s action that was both unfair and harmful to the Cuban nation as well as the American and Cuban investors, for it involved downright theft and helped fuel the animosity of the U.S. government against his regime. "How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?" she asked. The 2002 movie is being billed as a biographical documentary of Castro, featuring the Cuban dictator as well as Harry Belafonte and Ted Turner. www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/809488/posts   (14062 words)

Cubasource Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez launch in Havana the ALBA (Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas) initiative against the US sponsored FTAA (Free Trade Agreement for the Americas). Fidel Castro announces an increase in the island's minimum wage, more than doubling salaries of nearly 1.7 million Cuban workers. Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro strengthen their political and economic ties. www.cubasource.org /listings/'20_e.asp'   (14062 words)

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