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	Castro (Ruz), Fidel Alejandro - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Castro (Ruz), Fidel Alejandro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
		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’.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Castro+(Ruz),+Fidel+Alejandro (646 words)

	Fidel Castro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castro was born into a wealthy farming family in Birán, near Cueto, Holguín Province (formerly Oriente Province) and not far from the birthplace of Fulgencio Batista, the man whose government he was to overthrow.
		Castro is the illegitimate child of Angel Castro (1875-1956), an illiterate Spaniard from Galicia, Spain, who went to Cuba as a private with the Spanish army to fight against the United States.
		Castro was educated at Jesuit and La Salle Christian Brothers Schools [2] [3]) private schools in Santiago de Cuba and the Colegio de Belén in Havana, graduating in 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fidel_Castro (7533 words)

	MSN Encarta - Fidel Castro
		Castro’s education began in the local public schools near the neighboring town of Mayarí, where his classmates were the children of laborers.
		Castro declared that the young rebels stood for a return to democracy as established in the suspended 1940 Constitution, agrarian reform, the recovery of resources stolen by government officials and their friends, educational reform, profit sharing with laborers, and public housing provisions.
		Castro was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the Batista government and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564308/Fidel_Castro.html (2177 words)

	FIDEL CASTRO
		Fidel Castro was born August 13, 1926 in Oriente province, in eastern Cuba, to a prosperous landowning family.
		Castro arrived at the University of Havana in 1945 when the campus was run by armed thugs (another sign of the corruption and gang warfare that then had a marked influence on Havana).
		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.
	www.soc.duke.edu /~nvaldes/Cuba/fidel.htm (2411 words)

	Opposition to Fidel Castro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Opposition to Fidel Castro's Cuban government is largely unofficial and illegal within Cuba due to the political system led by Castro being a one party state.
		Opposition groups inside Cuba operate illegally, as the Cuban Constitution prohibits non-Communist parties and political organizations, their actions believed to represent a danger to the stability of the present government.
		By July 26, 1965 Fidel Castro claimed to have abolished "all the Bandits in Cuba".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opposition_to_Castro (1159 words)

	American Experience \| Fidel Castro \| Transcript \| PBS
		Castro was 29, a recognized political figure, and the head of an organization he called the "26th of July Movement" in memory of the Moncada Assault.
		FIDEL CASTRO: When the young people would appear murdered in the street, when the yards of the barracks would be full of cadavers, when our women were violated, when the children were murdered, when the police force would go into the embassy to assassinate our people, no one made a campaign against Cuba.
		Fidel Castro would go to a farm and throw his arm around a woman and say, "Sister, how are those chicks coming along?" For all his arrogance, he has a special touch with people.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/castro/filmmore/pt.html (11031 words)

	Fidel Castro
		Fidel Castro is well known as the leader of the Cuban revolution, a socialist and a strong political leader.
		Castro's foreign policy also includes the support of revolutionary groups in other countries, like Nicaragua, Bolivia and El Salvador, and his main foreign goal is advocating liberation from the fewer wealthier nations' dominion over the poorer.
		In a speech, Fidel Castro said that he knew no solution for the financial crisis, but promised the people to not surrender to a capitalist system enforced by a stronger wealthier nation, but to help the crisis, he allowed for some free trading and investments of other nations in Cuba.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b4fcastro12am.htm (1082 words)

	Observer \| Castro's rebellious daughter leads vitriolic radio attack from Miami
		A savage new voice of opposition to Fidel Castro's regime is being beamed into Havana from a Miami radio station.
		Fernández's opposition to her father's regime is the stuff of heated family drama.
		It is also the story of the child who came to hate her father and everything that he represented, and defected to ally herself with his bitterest enemies, a group that has for years plotted in Miami for his downfall.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4380513-108800,00.html (661 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)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		The four largest Afghan opposition groups met in Bonn, Germany, in late 2001 and agreed on a plan for the formulation of a new government structure that resulted in the inauguration of Hamid KARZAI as Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA) on 22 December 2001.
		Fidel CASTRO led a rebel army to victory in 1959; his iron rule has held the country together since.
		The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but are viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	Fidel Castro
		Fidel Castro was educated as a lawyer and began his career as an opponent of Cuban President Batista.
		Castro, in power for decades, has been one of the world's last hold-outs as a Communist leader.
		Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba.
	www.multied.com /bio/people/castro.html (195 words)

	The Observer \| Special reports \| Cuba after Castro
		As Castro enters the twilight of his rule, Ed Vulliamy experiences Stalinism beneath the palm trees, and meets a new opposition leader whose quiet revolution aims to topple the cigar-smoking dictator - by calling his bluff.
		Henry McDonald: Fidel Castro is a kind of secular Santa Claus for the Irish Left.
		"Castro's political ideas are to some extent obscure" but the revolutionary's promises of democracy seemed to represent a new spirit in Latin America.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /cuba/0,10805,527272,00.html (365 words)

	Professor West, What About Castro’s Leftwing Victims? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Opposition to Fidel Castro’s despotism is generally associated with the Right.
		(Castro denounced the reformers’ "anti-Marxist and anti-Leninist theses" that called for civil liberties and democratization.) Patterson was subsequently purged from the Young Communists, terminated from employment, removed from candidacy for a scholarship to study abroad, and forbidden to leave Cuba.
		Castro had the GTDI leaders arrested on July 16, 1997 for "counterrevolutionary crimes" and imprisoned without trial until March 1999 (Roca in solitary confinement).
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=1221 (818 words)

	Beyond Elian Gonzalez: Covering and Discovering ....
		As Wotzkow, an environmentalist, and Blazquez, an artist and filmmaker, reveal, opposition to Fidel Castro's undemocratic dictatorship is a principled liberal position.
		Among more shocking chapters, to those who might otherwise be sympathetic to Fidel Castro's professed aspirations, are Carlos Wotzkow's Spanish-language essays on Castro's persecution of homosexuals, support of bioterrorism, trafficking in narcotics, exploitation of the peasantry by Cuban Big Tobacco and destruction of the environment.
		Castro, in other words, is in bed with Big Tobacco to the detriment of the Cuban people.
	www.contactomagazine.com /blazquez1228.htm (1154 words)

	Fidel Castro - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		As Operación Verano faltered, Castro ordered three columns under Guevara, Jaime Vega and Camilo Cienfuegos to invade central Cuba where they were strongly supported by elements of Column One, nominally directed by Universo Sánchez and by veteran plains Escopeteros such as the "Muchachos de Lara" who had long been operating in the area.
		Image:Palme.castro.jpg On November 4, 1975, Castro ordered the deployment of Cuban troops to Angola in order to aid the Marxist MPLA-ruled government against the UNITA opposition forces, which gained the support of the government of South Africa.
		Image:Fidel Castro.jpg Fidel Castro's parents were Lina Ruz González and Ángel Castro y Argiz.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Fidel_Castro (7067 words)

	CubaMania Cuba Forums - Castro's rebellious daughter leads vitriolic radio
		It was Raoul Castro who supplied her with a house in order to placate her.
		Castro has at least one other daughter in the U.S., and his sister Juanita Castro of course.
		In this book, Wendy says, and I quote: andquot;Today, when there is no longer a romantic revolution (it survives only in Fidel's mind and the the memories of his aging supporters), many islanders, frustrated with the failure of their ideals, have turned to the United States, the government's scapegoat, for hope.
	www.cubamania.com /cuba/printthread.php?t=9281 (806 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Castro warning to dissidents
		The Cuban President, Fidel Castro, who will host next week's Ibero-American summit in Havana, has sent a warning to dissidents planning demonstrations around the event.
		Fidel Castro has repeatedly accused all government opponents of being traitors in the pay of Washington.
		Opposition human rights monitors say 15 to 20 opponents have already been detained this week, apparently to forestall further protests.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/516383.stm (304 words)

	Cuba attacks dissent with prison
		In an attempt to suffocate a growing opposition movement, Fidel Castro's government sentenced some of Cuba's most prominent critics Monday to as much as 27 years in prison for allegedly collaborating with U.S. diplomats to undermine the socialist system.
		During that period, the opposition movement that began with a few dozen members has grown to thousands of supporters across the island.
		He said threats by Castro to shut down the U.S. Interests Section are fueling a desire for Cubans to flee the island illegally.
	www.canf.org /News/040803newsa.htm (871 words)

	Judicial Watch - Because no one is above the law! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Renowned economist Marta Beatriz Roque, one of 75 intellectuals imprisoned by Fidel Castro, was allowed to slowly bleed to death in a deplorable, rat-infested jail cell despite calls by the international community for her care and release.
		Judicial Watch is leading the international community in opposition to Fidel Castro in an attempt to bring him to justice.
		Just weeks after Castro executed three men for attempting to flee Cuba, actor and MCI spokesman Danny Glover signed an anti-American document entitled, “To the Conscience of the World,” which supported Castro and his regime.
	www.judicialwatch.org /archive/newsletter/2003/1003h.shtml (862 words)

	The Cuba Free Press Project - El Proyecto Cuba Prensa Libre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This is the seventh letter from the member of the opposition to Fidel Castro since July 1995.
		Lopez Banobre adds to his demand that Castro, as President of the Republic, must stop the political police from trying to silence him by victimizing his wife and nine months old son in reprisal.
		Le reminds Fidel Castro that as President of the Republic he is the only one and the most obliged to answer the concerns expressed in his letter.
	www.cubafreepress.org /art/cubap980423d.html (425 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Emancipation Now for Cuban Jewry by Myles Kantor
		ON JANUARY 25 in West Palm Beach, Florida, members of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Alliance assembled to demand "Emancipation Now for Cuban Jewry." The Cuban Anti-Slavery Alliance views opposition to Fidel Castro’s autocracy as an anti-slavery struggle in the tradition of the American abolitionists.
		In 1975, Castro declared that "Yasser Arafat is a man whom we deeply love and admire and to whom we have always shown our solidarity." That same year, Cuba supported the infamous United Nations resolution equating Zionism with racism.
		In light of Cuban Jewry’s captivity and Castro’s intense anti-Zionism, it is appalling that some Jewish organizations not only ignore their brethren’s bondage but actually subsidize Castro.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1222 (817 words)

	Search Tuna Report for Fidel Castro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Fidel Castro was educated in Catholic schools and studied law at the University of Havana.
		The Speech The Following Is The Full Text Of The Speech Delivered By Cuban President Fidel Castro At The Palace Of Nations In Geneva On The Occasion Of The Presentation To Him Of The Health For All Medal By The World Health Organization, Thursday, May 14, 1998....
		Opposition Groups Inside Cuba Operate Illegally, As The Cuban Constitution Prohibits Non- Parties And Political Organizations, Their Actions Believed To Represent A Danger To The Stability Of The Present Government....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/2692.html (1975 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Unfortunately, she said, none of their offices were alerted to the fact that this legislation was coming up for a vote by any of the numerous advocacy groups that monitor related issues.
		In her letter, Congresswoman Waters told Cuban President Fidel Castro that she supports the right of all nations to grant political asylum to individuals fleeing political persecution.
		In her letter to Cuban President Fidel Castro, dated September 29, US Congresswoman Maxine Waters also came out against Washington's blockade of Cuba, and said that she hoped to see a new era of US-Cuba relations in the future.
	www.radiohc.org /Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.1998/98_oct/rhc-eng-10.02.98 (1086 words)

	Cuba
		The embargo was instituted in 1961 after a CIA-backed assault at the Bay of Pigs failed to topple Cuban President Fidel Castro's communist regime.
		In March, Castro ordered the arrest of 75 dissidents who were later sentenced for up to 28 years in jail.
		An amendment to the resolution condemning the recent detention, prosecution and quick sentencing of numerous members of the political opposition in Cuba was rejected, as was another amendment proposed by Cuba which would have called for an end to the U.S. embargo of the island (U.N. release, April 17).
	www.carthage.edu /dept/polisci/cuba/unwire.htm (2285 words)

	NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL - NEWS
		Chain of vigils in Nueva Gerona demand liberty without forced exile for political prisoners in Cuba.
		Opposition to Fidel Castro's regime carried out a chain of vigils in various parts of Nueva Gerona, the municipal capital of Isle of Pines, on the night of July 20th.
		This was part of the campaign "Liberty without forced exile for the Political Prisoners." The vigils were assembled by the Isle of Pines Foundation for Human Rights and "Fomento Territorial," the Civic Cultural Project Julio Tang Texier, the National Independent Confederation of Workers, and the Isle of Pines Human Rights Civic Movement.
	www.netforcuba.org /News-EN/2005/Aug/News688.htm (403 words)

	Castro's rebellious daughter leads vitriolic radio attack from Miami
		Her husband is president of one of the country's main opposition groups; he is in the eighth year of a 20-year sentence in one of Castro's prisons.
		Conditions in the prisons are wretched as Lugo confirms: isolation, beatings, rats, druggings, spoiled food, strip searches, filth, disease, the withholding of medical care.
		The guy who burned Old Glory was suspected of being a Castro plant in the crowd.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/652346/posts (2567 words)

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