FIDEL CASTRO

PERSONAL FACTS

• Birth date: August 13, 1926
• Birth place: Biran, Cuba

FAMILY

• Marriage: Mirta Diaz-Balart on 10/12/1948, divorced in 1955.
• Mother: Lina Ruz, a cook and maid to Angel Castro's first wife.

OTHER

• Led the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship of Cuba in 1959
• Has ruled Cuba ever sense.
• Made Cuba the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere.

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• February 19, 2008 - Due to ailing health, Castro announces his resignation as president
• April 19, 1982 - President Ronald Reagan reinstates the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba.

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• March 22, 2011 - In an essay published in Cuban state media,
• Fidel Castro writes that he resigned as head of the Communist party
• when he fell ill on July 31, 2006

SPANISH SENTENCES

• Fidel Castro fue un dictador
• Está muy enfermo a partir de ahora

WORK CITED

• http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/04/world/americas/fidel-castro---fast-facts/