"A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past."
from a speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution 2 January 1961
- Fidel Castro, born 13 August 1926.
The leader of Cuba from 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement,
he helped overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista turning Cuba
into the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere until his
resignation in February of 2008. He held the title of premier until
1976, when he became president of the Council of State and the Council
of Ministers. He has been the First Secretary of the Communist Party of
Cuba since its inception in 1965.
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