Cuba is a republic led by President Fidel Castro, who is Chief of State,
Head of Government, First Secretary of the CPC, and commander in chief
of the armed forces.
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History: Jose Marti
José Julián Martí y Pérez (January 28,
1853 – May 19, 1895) was a leader of the Cuban independence movement
as well as an esteemed poet and writer. He is often considered Cuba's
greatest hero.
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History: Felix Varela
Félix Varela y Morales (November 20, 1788-February 27, 1853) was born
in Havana, Cuba and died in St. Augustine, Florida. He studied to become
a Roman Catholic Priest in San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary in Havana,
the only seminary in Cuba. He also studied at the University of Havana.
At the age of 23 he was ordained in the Cathedral of Havana.
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History: Che Guevara
Dr. Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928¹ – October
9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist
revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was a member of Fidel
Castro's "26th of July Movement", which seized power in Cuba
in 1959. After serving various important posts in the new government,
Guevara left Cuba in 1966 with the hope of fomenting revolutions in
other countries, first in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and later
in Bolivia, where he was captured in a CIA-organized military operation.
Some believe that the CIA wanted to keep him alive for interrogation
but he was executed by the Bolivian army, although this is disputed.
After his death, Guevara became a hero of Third World socialist revolutionary
movements, as a theorist and tactician of asymmetric warfare.
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History: Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926), has led Cuba since 1959, when, leading
the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista, and
transformed Cuba into the first Communist Party-led State in the Western Hemisphere.
During his more than 40-year rule, he has emerged as one of the most controversial
political figures in the world. Internationally, his leadership has been marked
by tensions with the United States that peaked in the Cuban Missile Crisis and
a close partnership with the Soviet Union. Domestically, he has overseen the
implementation of radical land reforms, nationalization of leading Cuban industries,
programs that greatly increased the nation's literacy rate and provided universal
healthcare. Castro won the support of poorer Cubans
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