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    Fidel Castro

    1926-08-13 (98 years old) in Birán, Cuba

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Born in Birán, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962. Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fidel Castro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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    Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
    73 %|Oct 5, 2023
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    The Padilla Affair
    70 %|Sep 2, 2022
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    Rat Pack
    90 %|Jan 11, 2022
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    Becoming Cousteau
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    A History of an Assignment
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    I Am Jackie O
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    537 Votes
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    Laboratory Greece
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    Karl Marx und seine Erben
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    Historien ska frikänna mig
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    Laissez-faire
    100 %|Jan 30, 2015
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    The Man Who Saved the World
    70 %|Oct 22, 2012
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    The Day That Lasted 21 Years
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    The Mayor
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    Memories of Overdevelopment
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    The Kennedy Detail
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    Memória Cubana
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    CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism
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    Did the Mob Kill JFK?
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    La Rabbia di Pasolini
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    Lejos de la isla
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    638 Ways to Kill Castro
    56 %|Nov 28, 2006
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    I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
    72 %|Apr 14, 2005
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    The Adventures of Errol Flynn
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    Looking For Fidel
    60 %|Apr 14, 2004
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    The Fog of War
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    Comandante
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    Cuban Rafters
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    Kubánske otázniky
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    The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
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    Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
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    8A
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    JFK
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    The Uncompromising Revolution
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    Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
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    Chile: A Genral Record
    60 %|Jan 1, 1986
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    Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
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    The Necessary War
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    CBS Reports: The CIA's Secret Army
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    My Brother, Fidel
    52 %|Jan 1, 1977
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    Waiting for Fidel
    58 %|Nov 14, 1975
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    General Idi Amin Dada
    69 %|May 29, 1974
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    The Society of the Spectacle
    67 %|May 1, 1974
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    Cuba and Fidel
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    Venceremos, solidaridad
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    Chile, el gran desafío
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    And Heaven Was Taken by Storm
    60 %|Jan 1, 1973
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    Compromiso con Chile
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    Fidel
    40 %|Jun 25, 1971
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    Far from Vietnam
    69 %|Oct 18, 1967
    Documentary, War, Drama
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    Hello Cubans
    74 %|Nov 26, 1963
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    ¡Cuba Sí!
    76 %|Dec 31, 1961
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    Island Ablazed
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    Yanki No!
    63 %|Jul 7, 1960
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    Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959
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    Revolution's Daughter
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    Wasp Network
    60 %|Jan 29, 2020
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    ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
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    Cuba, un aller et un retour
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    Another Day of Life
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    Chavismo: The Plague of the 21st Century
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    Cuba and the Cameraman
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    El Che
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    Two Meetings and a Funeral
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    Angola: The War
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    Elián
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    Nobody
    65 %|Jan 13, 2017
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    Fidel Castro: America's Nemesis
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    Assassinating Franco
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    Castro: The World's Most Watched Man
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    Celia - la más hermosa flor
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    7 Days in Havana
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    Castro in Winter
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    Ethel
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    Santiago Files
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    Being Fidel Castro
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    The Inconclusive Independence
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    South of the Border
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    Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
    90 %|Oct 17, 2007
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    Oswald's Ghost
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    The War on Democracy
    75 %|Jun 15, 2007
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    Un Giorno con Fidel
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    Cuba, el valor de una utopía
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    Looking for Fidel
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    Salvador Allende
    66 %|Sep 8, 2004
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    Fidel Castro: Life for the Revolution
    65 %|Apr 26, 2004
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    Jack Paar: Smart Television
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    Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
    64 %|Nov 21, 2003
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    Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre
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    Naqoyqatsi
    61 %|Sep 2, 2002
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    The Cuban Game
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    Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
    56 %|Jan 20, 1993
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    Portrait of Castro's Cuba
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    Cuba 30 Anni Dopo
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    American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?
    0 %|Nov 2, 1988
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    Brascuba
    0 %|Jun 25, 1987
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    The CIA's War Against Cuba
    0 %|Jan 11, 1987
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    Fidel Racconta il Che
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    Improper Conduct
    56 %|Mar 21, 1984
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    On Company Business
    55 %|Apr 14, 1980
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    Mission Mind Control
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    A Grin Without a Cat
    77 %|Nov 23, 1977
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    The Exploitation of Man by Man
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    El Diálogo de América
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    I Am a Son of America
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    Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000
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    Topaz
    60 %|Dec 17, 1969
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    The Hour of the Furnaces
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    Muerte al invasor
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    General Assembly
    50 %|Jul 1, 1960
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    Cuban Rebel Girls
    20 %|Dec 25, 1959
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    Le Siècle des icônes
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    How to Become a Tyrant
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    Spycraft
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    Cuba, la révolution et le monde
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    Explained
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    Bobby Kennedy for President
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    Mentiras verdaderas
    55 %|Oct 11, 2011
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    La Case du siècle
    75 %|Sep 12, 2010
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    Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
    85 %|Oct 6, 1999
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    Informe especial
    20 %|Jul 6, 1984
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    The Ed Sullivan Show
    65 %|Jun 20, 1948
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