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FIDEL CASTRO

Fidel Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician. He was born in 1927. He opposed the Batista dictatorship in his country, and in 1953 with his brother attempted a revolution which failed. Imprisoned and released he went into exile in the USA and Mexico before returning to Cuba in 1956 in a surprise landing in which most of his supporters were killed. In 1959 he finally deposed Batista and established a Marxist-Leninist government with himself as Prime Minister.
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