When Fidel and his bearded troops, steeled in battle against the dictatorship, reached the Columbia base, January 8, 1959, an exacting stage in the national liberation struggle came to an end and a hopeful, unprecedented chapter in the country's history began.
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Today, when the United States and Iran are on the brink of an international conflict, the words of Fidel Castro Ruz have extraordinarily relevance.
Message from Comandante en jefe Fidel Castro Ruz against nuclear war
On the third anniversary of Fidel’s physical disappearance, we remember that he survives in the continuity of the process, in its constant renewal, in new initiatives, in our unwavering solidarity with the most noble causes, in the tireless work to make socialism a real possibility
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The Cuban revolutionary movement was struck by the equivalent of an atomic bomb when a long, impassioned letter from Fidel Castro reached Miami. Fidel, as everyone calls him, was writing from his embattled quarters in the Sierra Maestra at the eastern end of the island. There for well over a year he has withstood the most determined efforts of the best troops and army officers that the military dictator, General Batista, has sent against him.
Some two months after the barbudos of the Sierra Maestra made their triumphant entry into Havana, on March 10, 1959, Princeton University extended a formal invitation to Fidel Castro Ruíz, the 32-year-old Premier of Cuba and leader of the Revolution, to address a Senior Conference of the American Civilization Program, led by Robert Palmer, the Dodge Professor of History. Dr. Castro, as he was politely referred to in University correspondence, was asked to speak on the theme of "The United States and the Revolutionary Spirit," on April 20, 1959.
Fidel Castro, defying his own Cuban bodyguards and three other police forces, hugged and shook hands with thousands of people here yesterday and declared: "I feel as if I'm in Havana." He asked Mayor Fournier to call off his Montreal police guards and with them still trailing, he strode across the width of Dorchester St., straddling the central mall, to "meet my people." Still wearing his olive-green army fatigues, and a bronze scapular dangling from his neck, the bearded prime minister of Cuba received rousing welcomes wherever he went. "He could have been killed three dozen times the way he…
Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, PCC Central Committee First Secretary and President of the Council of State, has received the 17 November Medal, the highest award given by the International Union of Students (UIS). The medal was presented to Fidel by (Dusan Urka), president of the IUS, during a ceremony held at the 26 July international pioneers camp shortly after the main ceremony commemorating Children's Day ended.
Monday, October 22nd of 1962 was dawning; the guard staff from the division of Operations and Information of the General Staff (EMG) of the FAR (Revolutionary Armed Forces) started to make their rounds from office to office, waking up their comrades who had been at work until very late at night.
Fidel Castro has left an indelible mark on Cuban history. In half a
century he has transformed his country, which was under the Fulgencio
Batista dictatorship and the US yoke, into an independent nation
respected for its courage and its altruism.
Fidel Castro has left an indelible mark on Cuban history. In half a
century he has transformed his country, which was under the Fulgencio
Batista dictatorship and the US yoke, into an independent nation
respected for its courage and its altruism.
“Peace in Colombia” by Fidel Castro Ruz. The title and the author’s name would be enough to turn this into the most widely sought-after and read book these days throughout the world. Just looking at the excellent presentation of this publication by Editora Política leads one to imagine that its pages are a treasury of the personal opinions of the extraordinary statesman who writes about a complex and dark chapter in our times and region.