# Fidel Castro

> Led Cuba for nearly five decades as a Marxist revolutionary who turned the island into a one-party communist state ninety miles from the United States, survived assassination attempts and an economic embargo, and placed Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuban soil in 1962.

*Cuban politician, author and revolutionary (1926-2016)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/fidel-castro

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Cuba
- **Born:** 1926-08-13
- **Died:** 2016-11-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1926 to a wealthy Spanish farmer in Birán, Castro studied law at the University of Havana and adopted leftist anti-imperialist ideas. After a failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks and imprisonment, he went to Mexico and formed the 26th of July Movement with his brother Raúl and Che Guevara. The group waged guerrilla war from the Sierra Maestra and overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959. As prime minister and later president, Castro nationalized industry, expanded healthcare and education, suppressed internal dissent, and aligned with the Soviet Union through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War. He backed Marxist governments abroad and sent troops to conflicts in Angola, Ethiopia, and the Middle East. After the Soviet collapse in 1991, he navigated Cuba through economic hardship and later allied with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela. Castro transferred power to Raúl in 2006 and died in November 2016 at ninety, leaving a polarized legacy as either champion of anti-imperialism or authoritarian ruler.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 88.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.2 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 32.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 28.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004242/ (@nm0004242)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1jMinhdjeZQjPiTAz6rynF (@1jMinhdjeZQjPiTAz6rynF)

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Law, #Journalism, #Founders, #Movies, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2016** - Died
- **2014** - Confucius Peace Prize
- **2009** - Order of Omar Torrijos Herrera
- **1999** - Order of Belize
- **1989** - Order of Hồ Chí Minh
- **1986** - Order of Klement Gottwald
- **1975** - Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- **1972** - Collar of the Order of the White Lion
- **1959** - Order of the Nile
- **1926** - Born

## Sources
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- [Кастро, Фидель](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)
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- [ফিডেল কাষ্ট্ৰ'](https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0')
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- [ফিদেল কাস্ত্রো](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B)
- [Фидел Кастро](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE)
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- [Фідэль Кастра](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0)

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