Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro
Personal life
Date and place of birth	August 13, 1926 Birán, Oriente Province, Cuba
Parents	Angel Castro y Argiz Lina Ruz González (out of wedlock)
Claimed religion	Atheist
Education	University of Havana
Spouse	Mirta Diaz-Balart (1948–1955) Dalia Soto del Valle (1980–present)
Children
Date & Place of Death	July 2006 Cuba
Manner of Death	illness
Dictatorial career
Country	Cuba
Military service	26th of July Movement (guerrilla organization)
Highest rank attained	n/a
Political beliefs	Socialism Communism
Political party	Communist Party of Cuba
Date of dictatorship	July, 1959
Wars started	Cuban Revolution Angolan Civil War War in Mozambique Ethiopian Guerilla War Cuban Missile Crisis Congo Crisis El Salvadoran Guerilla War Nicaraguan Civil War
Number of deaths attributed	1,500,000 at home 500-100,000 in Angola

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – July 2006) was the brutal atheistic Communist dictator of Cuba from 1959 to 2006. He was not seen and heard publicly after July 2006, when he underwent surgery for a "sharp intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding" in a Communist hospital.^[1] Engaging in liberal denial, Communists in Cuba release grainy images of an apparently old man along with absurd quotes of Castro like this claim, "I don’t even remember what a headache feels like."^[2] On hot Cuban days a stand-in wearing heavy make-up and a scarf to conceal his young neck met with foreign dignitaries, but Obama refused to be humiliated by this Communist hoax by meeting with or even mentioning Fidel during Obama's trip to Cuba. Rather than wait until Donald Trump was in power to expose the Communist lie, Cuba timed its announcement of Castro's death for the slowest news moment of the year: late Friday night after Thanksgiving Day. This announcement was reminiscent of the release of hostages by Iran just before Ronald Reagan became president.

With American globalists helping bring him to and stay in power,^[3] Fidel Castro held the posts of prime minister (1959–1976) and president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers (1976–2006).^[4] His oppressive rule lasted almost 50 years and killed scores of thousands. He had not been seen publicly since July 2006, when he underwent intestinal surgery, and was presumably no longer alive as of December 2009; the Communists running Cuba had no incentive to risk challenge to their power by announcing that he passed away.^[5] After a long absence from the public eye, he was purportedly shown in photographs in June 2010, released by the Cuban State News Agency. In August 2010, the Associated Press had a story of a purported Castro speech to the Cuban parliament.^[6] The fact remains there hadn't been a reputable, independent account of Castro being alive in nearly a year. Other authoritarian regimes, such as North Korea and Nazi Germany have also engaged in "body-doubles" and actor/impersonators to hide the death or incapacitation of despots in the past.^[7][8] In April 2011, Castro allegedly stepped down as head of the Cuban Communist Party, but it has not been confirmed that this was not a ruse.^[9]

Castro was an important inspiration, role model, and hero for leftist psychopath Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Early years of Castro[edit]

There is much that is not known of Castro's rural youth. However, it is generally conceded that his father was Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz and his mother Lina Ruz González. Official biographies are essentially hagiographies and the more extreme of his many detractors portray a wild and irregular life typical of the worst elements of his class. Castro has numerous siblings of various combination of parentage; for instance, it is widely believed that Raul Castro has the same mother but is not a son of Fidel Castro's father. The most accepted biography is that of Geyer 2002 ^[11] while a new series biographies by Norberto Fuentes (2004, and later),^[12] a former propagandist for the Cuban Government, are attracting attention.

During his student years Fidel Castro was deeply involved in lethal violence.^[13] This violence also extended overseas to his involvement in the 1948 Colombian Bogotazo.^{[14] [15]} Castro was trained as a lawyer studying at the University of Havana. In 1953 he led the first of many assaults against the ruling military regime of general Fulgencio Batista. A 1953 attack against military barracks in Santiago de Cuba was a failure,^[16] and Castro, alongside his brother Raul, was captured they, unlike a number of his companions, were spared irregular execution by intervention of Roman Catholic Church members. In a courtroom speech in his defense (heavily edited in published form, and titled "La Historia me absolverá", or "History will absolve me"), Castro outlined his plans for reforms, demanding a return to the 1940 constitution, the ending of corrupt practices and a more equal distribution of land. There was no formal death penalty in Cuba at the time. After three years of incarceration on the Isle of Youth (then Isle of Pines), both Castro brothers were released during an amnesty.

Upon release, the Castro brothers relocated to Mexico to avoid imminent reprisals from paramilitary groups affiliated with the Batista regime, lead by former Communist and longtime rival of Castro Roland Masferrer.^[17] In Mexico Castro organized a group of revolutionaries to return to Cuba and overthrow Batista. They became known as the 26th of July movement. This group included the Argentinian Che Guevara. In December 1956 Castro and 81 others boarded the Granma yacht, sailed to eastern Cuba, and began the armed struggle against the current regime.

The landing was preceded in Santiago and the rest of Oriente Province by an armed rising of the 26 of July urban Militia, a non-Communist organization, lead by Frank Pais.^[18] In the mountains the guidance of the bandit Cresencio Perez, and a few Communist sleepers who had been placed in the Sierra for some time under the direction of stalinist agent Fabio Grobart was important. Some local guajiros in the remote Sierra Maestra region joined in to became the nucleus of the critical scouting and picketing force of Escopeteros who screened the better armed Castro main force. The support and guidance from revolutionary groups in the cities of Santiago, Havana, elsewhere in Cuba and overseas was critical. The support of the U.S. State Department, mediated by William Weiland (aka Guillermo Arturo Montenegro) was significant from the time of the Bogotazo, through the Bay of Pigs.^[19]

By 1958, military attacks against Batista's army were having some success^[20] with some news reports engineered by The New York Times with the help of reporter Herbert Matthews, and the revolution was gaining national support. Castro maintained a position of diplomatic neutrality among various revolutionary factions, which included upper and middle-class liberals, guajiros, and agricultural workers, communists and others, and hence was able to assume the position of director of the revolution. He was also largely successful in courting international support via astute and careful use of the media. Officials within the CIA and the United States government were divided over whether to support Castro. Some believed that Batista had become a liability, and that his overthrow was inevitable. Other officials feared the influence of known Communists in Castro's camp including Guevara, though Castro himself repeatedly claimed that he himself was "not a Communist".

The revolution finally succeeded in late 1958, and on January 1, 1959, Batista left the country. Castro had chosen exiled leaders Manuel Urrutia Lleó and José Miró Cardona, both anti-Communist liberals with good relations with the U.S., to head the new government. Castro himself became head of the new armed forces. However, the increasing presence of Communists in the decision-making process created an early split in the government. Castro and Urrutia both insisted publicly that they had relations with each other, but Urrutia and Miró resigned only months later, and Castro, with support from mass organizations, assumed the position of prime minister. Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, a former Commodore of the Cienfuegos Yacht Club became president and head of state. Globalists in the U.S. State Department sympathetic toward Marxism and influenced by the Council on Foreign Relations contributed to Castro's rise to power.^[3]

In Power[edit]

The process of obtaining permanent power was dramatic, traumatic and bloody. From 1959 on, mass killings of dissidents were carried out as a matter of course by the infamous "firing squads." Immediately after the Communist take-over, some 2,500 army officers were rounded up and shot dead.^[21] Che Guevara reportedly stayed up late into the night signing death warrants for defenseless "reactionaries." Tens of thousands were sent to concentration camps.^[22] Desperate crowds of weeping daughters and shrieking mothers were clubbed with rifle butts as they pleaded for their family members to be spared. One of Castro's exiled opponents describes it this way:

Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock (above) Socialist mass murderer Fidel Castro (below)

"The Castro regime came to power by deception and terror, resulting in what can only be described as a state of war against the Cuban people. Executions, labor camps, forced re-locations and exile, and the imposition of a repressive military police force to exercise control over civilian society."^[23]

As prime minister, and then president from 1976, Castro ruled the country in line with Stalinist policies, seizing private property and eliminating free speech and free press. He was infamous for his overly long speeches, often rambling on for hours, which can be seen as an example of Liberal style.

Castro, who had been in regular contact with the KGB since 1956 and who used Soviet arms during his guerrilla war, welcomed the presence of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba to deter an American attack. This decision precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis, a major confrontation in the Cold War that nearly resulted in the cataclysmic death of millions. According to Guevara: "If the [Soviet nuclear] rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York."^[24] Nikita Khrushchev wrote that, according to Castro, "we needed to immediately deliver a nuclear missile strike against the United States… a proposal that placed the planet on the brink of extinction."^[25] Fidel Castro admitted: "I would have agreed to the use of nuclear weapons."^[26] On October 26, 1962, the USS Beale had tracked and dropped signaling depth charges (the size of hand grenades) on the B-59, a Soviet Project 641 (NATO designation Foxtrot) submarine which, unknown to the U.S., was armed with a 15 kiloton nuclear torpedo. Running out of air, the Soviet submarine was surrounded by American warships and desperately needed to surface. Captain Valentin Savitsky ordered his crew to prepare the use of a nuclear torpedo against the Americans, but crew member Vasili Arkhipov stepped in and quite literally saved the world.

In the aftermath of the crisis, the United States maintained a strict embargo on Cuba. As a result, Castro sought close ties with anti-American Communist states, and became dependent on aid from Moscow. He supplied massive amounts of military aid to North Korea and especially to North Vietnam, where Cuban forces allegedly helped torture American POWs during the Vietnam War.

Ever eager to make trouble, Castro dispatched Che to assist the Chinese-and Soviet-backed "Simbas" of Laurent Kabila in the Congo, who were "murdering, raping and munching (many were cannibals) their way through the defenseless Europeans still left in the recently abandoned Belgian colony."^[21] The CIA fought a proxy war with Communist forces in the Congo, which descended into a complex maze of chaotic maneuverings and betrayals by several major world powers.

Castro, all the while hypocritically maintaining an "anti-imperialist" political posture, would intervene extensively in the internal affairs of African nations through violence and war. Cuban military intervention to save the Communist MPLA dictatorship in Angola from collapse led to decades of civil war that cost as many as 1 million lives.^[27] Castro also dispatched Cuban troops to fight on behalf of the Communist dictatorship in Ethiopia, which killed 1.25 million people through massacre and forced starvation.^[28]

Soviet and Cuban support for Communist violence caused civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.^[29] Support from the Cuban government was also given to terrorists from the PLO.^[30]

Castro has repeatedly ordered acts of war against the United States. Beyond the missile crisis, Castro maintains a huge electronic espionage complex directed at U.S. shores, conducts research into biological warfare and sponsors international terrorist groups.^[31] Cuban intelligence had ties with the Communist Lee Harvey Oswald, who later assassinated President John F. Kennedy.^[32] In the seventies, Castro deliberately sent dozens of dangerous criminals to US shores;^[33] he responded to overtures from President Bill Clinton by ordering a deadly attack on an American plane.^[34]

On February 23, 1988, the Cuban poet Armando Valladares, who was a prisoner in the Cuban gulag for 22 years, addressed the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. In his speech, he stated:

I recall when they kept me in a punishment cell, naked, with several fractures on one leg which never received medical care; today, those bones remain jammed up together and displaced. One of the regular drills among the guards was to stand on the steel mesh ceiling and throw at my face buckets full of urine and excrement.

Mr. Chairman, I know the taste of the urine and the excrement of other men: That practice does not leave marks; marks are left by beatings with steel rods and by bayonet thrusts. My head is still covered with scars and you can feel the cracks.

But, what can inflict more damage to human dignity, the urine and excrements thrown all over your face or a bayonet's blow? Which is the appropriate article for the discussion of this subject? Under which technical point does it fall? Under what batch of papers, numbers, lines and bars should we include this trampling of human dignity?

The violation of human rights was not a matter of reports, of negotiated resolutions, of elegant and diplomatic rhetoric, for us it was a daily suffering.

For me it meant eight thousand days of hunger, of systematic beatings, of hard labor, of solitary confinement, of cells with steel-planked windows and doors, of solitude.

Eight thousand days of struggling to prove that I was a human being. Eight thousand days of proving that my spirit could triumph over exhaustion and pain. Eight thousand days of testing my religious convictions, my faith, of fighting the hate my atheist jailers were trying to instill in me with each bayonet thrust, fighting so that hate would not flourish in my heart. Eight thousand days of struggling so that I would not become like them, rejecting torture as a mean to fight, forcing myself to forgive, rejecting the thoughts of revenge, reprisal and cruelty.^[35]

Castro's policies imposed poverty and slavery on millions.^[36] In 1959, Cuba was the second richest country in Latin America; today, it is the second poorest.^[37] Most pharmacies in Cuba do not even have aspirins.^[38] Cuba is plagued with a humanitarian catastrophe involving massive and widespread malnutrition and lack of basic goods; death, suffering, and misery is the result.^[39] The streets are now choked with scenes of starving peasants frantically pleading for food.^[40] In September 2010, Castro admitted that "the Cuban model doesn't even work."^[41]

Castro has been accused of genocide by Genocide Watch.^[42] He has been sued for genocide in Belgium and Spain.^[43]

The estimated number of deaths attributable to the Castro regime varies according to different sources—but not by much. The number of named, documented victims (with 2 or more sources) established by recent scholarship is 86,000, excluding an estimated minimum^[44] of 16,282 deaths in war and combat, for a conservative total of 112,000.^[45] R.J. Rummel, in his book Statistics of Democide estimates a range of 35-141,000 killed, which may underestimate the full toll by as much as 50%, since it only covers the years 1959-87.^[46] The most comprehensive survey, by Armando Lago, puts the total at 116,730-119,730 killed.^[47] The majority (85,000) of these deaths were caused by drowning; the firing squads account for some 30,000. Adding combat deaths to his calculations, we arrive at a total of some 136,000 Cubans killed by the Castro regime. Little effort has been made to calculate boat people deaths in recent years. Cuban exiles claim that as many as 200,000 have been murdered altogether.^[48] The death toll from Cuban interventions abroad can be numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

Death and purported sightings[edit]

In August 2006, health problems led to the appointment of his younger brother, Raul, as temporarily president and head of the Communist Party in Cuba. Political analysts believe that the appointment marks the beginning of a transition designed to maintain Communist control over Cuba after Castro's death.^[49] Castro's surgery was scheduled to repair a "sharp intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding."^[1]

Bonded by their hate for the United States and capitalism, Castro and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez created a close relationship. Both socialist countries have worked together on various political ventures.^[50]

On May 1, 2007, Castro did not attend Cuba's annual celebration of May Day, leading many to believe that he had died. While Castro allegedly met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on February 25, 2010,^[51] there is no independent confirmation that this was not, in fact, a body-double.

On February 18, 2006, Communist Cuba publicly recognized that Fidel Castro was no longer President of the State Council and Commander in Chief.^[52] He was succeeded by his brother, Raul Castro.

In September 2011, it was claimed that a Venezuelan reporter had interviewed Castro,^[53] but independent media have not confirmed that this was not actually a doppelganger standing in for the long-deceased Castro.

In February 2012 the mainstream media claimed that Castro met with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Predictably there have been no reports from the liberal media as to whether this was actually Castro or a lookalike.^[54]

In February 2013, Castro allegedly^[55] addressed Cuba's National Assembly, giving support for younger leadership in Cuba.^[56] The National Assembly went on to re-elect Castro's 82-year-old brother Raul.

On November 25, 2016, Cuba finally confirmed what the rest of the world suspected for over a decade and announced the death of Castro, although the cause of death was not immediately disclosed.^[57] Exiled Cubans and Cuban-Americans celebrated the news of the revelation of Castro's death upon hearing about it.^[58] Ironically, given his long-lived fight against Capitalism, his announced death occurred on Black Friday.

Numerous leftists, including Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau,^[59] Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein,^[60] Sierra Club president Aaron Mair,^[61] and Jesse Jackson,^[62] issued positive or semi-positive statements in response to the death of a man who killed thousands of people and left an extremely poor third-world country.^[62] On the other hand, Republican president-elect Donald Trump gave very strong statements against the dictator, calling him a "brutal dictator" and saying that "Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights".^[63][64][65]

Ben Shapiro wrote:

• What were Castro's great achievements? He presided over the economic destruction of one of the most quickly developing countries in Latin America; he arrested and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of dissidents; he caused the self-imposed exile of millions of Cubans; he watched and participated in the drowning of thousands of Cubans attempting to escape his prison island; he worked with mass murderer Che Guevara to murder political opponents. Castro was, simply put, one of the worst people in a century full of awful human beings.^[66]

Continued persecution[edit]

Even after Castro's death, people still faced serious persecution if they criticized the dictator, as in the example of a Christian leader who was arrested in March 2017 and sentenced to three years in prison, a few months after his young children were arrested.^[67]

See also[edit]

• Mystery:Did a Fake Fidel Castro Meet the Pope?
• Bay of Pigs
• Dictatorship
  • Dictator
  • List of dictators
  • Friendly dictator
  • Dictatorship of the proletariat
  • List of Communist States
  • List of Socialist States
  • Death toll of communism
• Cult of personality
• Single-party state
• Big government
• Liberal totalitarianism

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