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Fidel Castro was the Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as its leader from 1959-2008, becoming a famous icon of communist rule.
Fidel Castro was a Cuban leader and revolutionary who served as prime minister and president of Cuba from 1959 to 2008. He was a leading figure in the Cuban Revolution which overthrew the US-backed Cuban president, Fulgencio Batista, and implemented sweeping socialist reforms across the island nation.
Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and world leader who was born on August 13, 1926, and died in 2016 at the age of 90. He is best known as the former President and Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, leading the nation as a communist state and for his alliance with the Soviet Union.
