Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has ruled Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista and transformed Cuba into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere.

External links

• PBS American Experience Interactive site on Fidel Castro with a teacher's guide
• Fidel Castro History Archive at Marxists Internet Archive.
• Historian Humberto Fontova about Castro and Cuba
• Cuba: Socialism and Democracy by Peter Taaffe
• For a collection of Castro's speeches
• Zenith and Eclipse: A Comparative Look at Socio-Economic Conditions in Pre-Castro and Present Day Cuba, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, 9 February 1998
• Human Rights Watch - Publication by Human Rights Watch comments about Cuba.
• CIA Inspector General's Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro
• Political and other freedoms in Cuba - a report by FreedomHouse.
• Cidob biography in Spanish