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Fidel Castro: Power
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Rúz (born August 13, 1926) has been in power in Cuba since 1959. He was prime minister of Cuba until 1976, when he became President of Cuba. He temporarily gave power to his brother Raúl Castro while recovering from surgery in summer of 2006.
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As Nikita Khrushchev later admitted, at the time Fidel Castro took power in Cuba the Soviet Union had little contact with the island and very limited knowledge about what was happening there. The information they had gathered about Castro, mostly through members of the old Cuban communist party, was fragmentary and contradictory.
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The rebel forces of Fidel Castro moved swiftly to seize power throughout the island. At the age of 32, Castro had successfully masterminded a classic guerrilla campaign from his headquarters in the Sierra Maestra and ousted Batista.
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Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959 and has held it for more than four decades, becoming one of the world's longest-ruling leaders. Read a timeline of the communist dictator's life.
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Analysts see Fidel Castro as a leader who sacrifices anything in order to stay in power. He, on the other hand, claims that neither wealth, lust for glory, fame, nor prestige motivates him. He claims ideas, not power, motivate him.
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A woman holding a sign in Spanish that translates to ‘Liberty for Cuba,’ joins revelers as they cruise the streets of Hialeah, Fla., in this Aug. 1, 2006, file photo, after hearing the news about Fidel Castro’s health. Cuban officials announced the head of Cuba had temporarily relinquished presidential power to his brother Raul due to intestinal illness.
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