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Fidel Castro's Birth
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13th, 1926 in Bir
án, Cuba from Ángel Castro and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel's father was a prosperous sugarcane farmer that came from Spain during the Cuban Revolution. While married with his first wife,Fidel's father had an affair with his servant, Lina Ruz Gonzalez, and had Fidel out of wedlock. -
Fidel Castro Graduated from Law School
Castro got a doctorate Law degree from Havana University. Although Castro was interested in Law, he spent most of his time in University at political rallies and even founded his own radical political party called the Radical Orthodox Action. The party was known to be incredibly violent and called for the overthrow of the government These events are significant because they helped forge the path to Fidel's hand in politics and with the Cuban Revolution -
Castro's Assault on Moncada barracks
Fidel Castro and his Fidelistas stormed the Moncada Barracks to gain weapons and eventually overthrow Batista's government. Unfortunately, being surprised by a special army patrol and the barracks being awake and alert that day caused it to fail. The Fidelistas were pinned behind their car and were forced to retreat. -
Castro trained in Guerilla Warfare with his troops in the Sierra Mountains
Castro and his forces had went into hiding in the Sierra Maestra Mountain chain to prepare usurping the Batista Regime. Fidel trained his forces in Guerilla Warfare, taught them how to be more mobile, and expected dogmatic loyalty to him and the cause. The training was significant due to the effectiveness of his cell-based Guerilla warfare due to the training against Batista which snowballed into riots in urban areas which helped his cause -
Fidel Castro swore in as Prime minister of Cuba
astro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba. quickly after restoring the 1940 Cuban Constitution, Fidel Castro immediately started reducing the powers of the president and increasing the powers of his own position to that of essentially a dictator which went against the constitution. -
Fidel brings positive reform to Cuba
Within the 100 days Castro marched into Havana claiming victory, he passed multiple policies that bettered the lives of barren Cubans everywhere. Fidel kicked out the Mob from Cuba, closed down casinos, and cracked down on crime from cartels and other criminal actions that affected the lower class Cubans. He also raised the lowest salaries and lowered rents for Cuba's poor. To better rural areas, he sent doctors and teachers to educate and treat the people that lived there