Person
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary who led the 26th of July Movement against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, attacking the Moncada barracks in 1953 and waging guerrilla war from the Sierra Maestra after 1956. He took power in January 1959, aligned Cuba with the Soviet Union and built a one-party communist state, ruling as prime minister and president until handing power to his brother Raúl in 2008.
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