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Birth
Fidel Castro was born in 1926 in Birán (at that time in the municipality of Mayarí and the former province of Oriente and now, respectively, the municipality of Cueto and the province of Holguín). Son of Ángel Castro Argiz and Lina Ruz González. -
Confrontation with bautista
In March 1952, Fidel Castro denounced Batista before an Emergency Court for violating the constitution. The courts rejected the claim, so Castro saw the armed struggle as the only possible way to overthrow the dictatorship -
Attack to the moncada barracks
After what happened, he participated in the preparation of an armed attack against the Moncada barracks, in Santiago de Cuba. The idea was to disguise themselves as sergeants to get an uprising. Despite having the support of some citizens who tried to camouflage them, many were caught.After twenty-two months in prison he was released in 1955 -
Revolutionary Fight
Fidel returned to Cuba with 82 other members of the called July 26 Movement on December 2, 1956 aboard the Granma yacht with the intention of invading the island. But they failed due to a two-day delay in landing. They were attacked by the army. The few survivors among them, Ernesto Che Guevara, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Camilo Cien began a guerrilla war against the Batista government. The United States collaborated with Bautista. -
Prime Minister
On February 7, 1959, the Government promulgated the Fundamental Law of the Republic, with laws from the 1940 constitution. Days later, due to problems within the Government, several ministers proposed Castro to be prime minister. On February 16, Fidel was appointed Prime Minister by current President Urrutia. -
Problems with USA
The approval of the first Agrarian Reform Law affected Cuban and American landowners. For this reason, US President Dwight Eisenhower approves various measures proposed by the State Department and the CIA to undertake covert actions against Cuba, which include air and naval pirate attacks, and direct support for the revolutions in Cuba.The physical elimination of Castro is also established as an objective. On January 3, 1961, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Cuba. -
Invasion in the Bay of Pigs
April 17, 1961, an expedition from the “2506 brigade” disembarked in the Bay of Pigs .The group has Cuban people trained in Guatemala by the CIA. The next day, the counteroffensive of the Cuban forces led by Fidel Castro took place.On November 30, Kennedy authorizes Operation Mongoose, a program of war and support for revolutionary political organizations.In January 1962 Cuba is expelled from the OAS due to the Marxist-Leninist ideas of the Cuban Government. -
Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union saw possible allies in Cuba, so it created a military base in Cuba to attack USA. This operation was discovered so Kennedy sent reinforcements to Cuba. After this Khrushchev proposed to Kennedy the dismantling of the Soviet bases in Cuba, in exchange for the guarantee that the USA would not invade Cuba and the dismantling of the United States bases in Turkey, Kennedy finally agreed. Castro was annoyed with Khrushchev for not taking Cuba's opinion into account. -
Important Speech
On October 15, 1976,in honour to the 73 fatalities of the terrorist attack carried out by the CIA in Barbados, he delivered one of his most moving speeches: «When an energetic and virile cries, injustice trembles!». -
Relinquishment of the power
On February 19, 2008, he announced in an article in Granma magazine that he would not aspire to be re-elected as president of the Council of State and commander after 49 years in power, five days after Parliament, the Assembly of People's Power, elected the new leadership of the Government, on February 24. His brother Raúl Castro, who had temporarily replaced him, was elected by the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba on February 24, 2008, becoming the Cuban president. -
Death
On November 25, 2016, Raúl Castro reported, through an official statement through Cuban Television, that his brother Fidel had died in Havana, at the age of 90. The cause of death was not revealed. The Council of State decreed nine days of national mourning.