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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 ...
Hud is an American who survived the Bay of Pigs Invasion and has sworn revenge against Fidel Castro.Many years later, he gets his chance when he is engaged by Mr Rossellini, who blames Castro for his losses when his gambling enterprises and he had to leave Cuba, and the mysterious Mr. Bell, who finances Hud for a mission to Cuba.
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 ...
Whatever happened to Alejandro Castro Espín these years remains a mystery.
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 ...
EXCLUSIVE: Fidel Castro’s daughter, Alina Fernández, has emphasized to Deadline her endorsement of James Franco playing her Cuban leader revolutionary father in the upcoming independent feature ...
Castro Díaz-Balart returned to Cuba as a child to visit his father, and remained there for the rest of his childhood. [5] In 1959, he appeared as a 9-year-old during an interview with his father on U.S. television. [6] Castro Díaz-Balart moved to Moscow (in what was then the Soviet Union), where he enrolled at Voronezh State University in ...
William Alexander Morgan (April 19, 1928 – March 11, 1961) was an American-born Cuban guerrilla commander who fought in the Cuban Revolution, leading a band of rebels that drove the Cuban army from key positions in the central mountains as part of Second National Front of Escambray, thereby helping to pave the way for Fidel Castro's forces to secure victory.