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Papua New Guinea – Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, who had completed a state visit to Cuba just hours before Fidel Castro's death, said: "Regardless of the politics of the time, such as the Cold War in relation to Cuba, […] when a warrior passes it is time to pay homage to the person who stood by their convictions. The legacy that Fidel ...
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A letter written by the 14-year-old Castro, learning English, to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt—"My good friend Roosvelt []."In the letter Castro expresses his joy at Roosevelt's re-election, states his age as "twelve years old" (he was actually 14) and writes, "If you like, give me a ten dollar bill green American [sic], because never, I have not seen a ten dollar bill", signing the ...
Back in Cuba, Castro feared a US-backed coup; in 1959 his regime spent $120 million on Soviet, French, and Belgian weaponry and by early 1960 had doubled the size of Cuba's armed forces. [179] Fearing counter-revolutionary elements in the army, the government created a People's Militia to arm citizens favourable to the revolution, training at ...
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Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart (1 September 1949 – 1 February 2018) was a Cuban nuclear physicist and government official. Frequently known by the diminutive Fidelito (little Fidel), [1] he was the eldest son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his first wife, Mirta Díaz-Balart.
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