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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. [187] Fearing counter-revolutionary elements in the army, the government created a People's Militia to arm citizens favourable to the revolution, training at ...
Vladimiro Roca Antúnez, the son of a prominent communist leader who grew to become a dissident and opposed Fidel Castro when few dared at the time, died on Sunday, members of the opposition and ...
Castro Díaz-Balart's parents divorced in 1955, prior to the Cuban Revolution in which his father seized power in the country. His mother moved to Miami, United States, with the Díaz-Balart family, taking her son with her. Castro Díaz-Balart returned to Cuba as a child to visit his father, and remained there for the rest of his childhood. [5]
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz [a] (/ ˈ k æ s t r oʊ / KASS-troh; [6] Latin American Spanish: [raˈul moˈðesto ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, [7] from 2011 to 2021, and ...
In October 1956, a group of Cuban dissidents, led by Fidel Castro, purchased a yacht called the Granma for US$15,000 from a United States-based Company, Schuylkill Products Inc. [3] The yacht, which carried 82 rebels sailed from the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz on November 25, 1956 and headed for Cuba. The revolutionaries planned to land in ...
US consul in Cuba names a new provisional president, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada, son of the Founding Father, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. September 4 A revolutionary junta led by Sergeant Fulgencio Batista seizes control of Cuba. September 10 Formation of the One Hundred Days Government, under the presidency of Dr. Ramón Grau San Martín.
Juanita Castro co-wrote her memoirs and the history of the Castro family, ‘Fidel and Raúl, mis Hermanos, la historia secreta’ (Fidel and Raúl, my brothers, the secret history (Aguilar, 2009 ...
The decision, Cuba observers say, was almost unthinkable just a few years ago, and it exposes how rapidly the country is changing despite the current government’s mantra that it seeks to be a ...