Fidel Castro

On August 13, 1926, the communist politician Fidel Castro was in born in Biran, Cuba. Castro would study law at the University of Havana and adopt an anti-imperialist ideology. After participating in the Dominican Republic and the Columbia he planned to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Fidel, his brother Raul Castro and Che Guevera would start the Cuban revolution and overthrow Batista. After Batista was overthrown Fidel Castro assumed control over military and political power as Cuba's prime minister and implemented a lot of communist ideology in Cuba. Once he had the power he decided to strip away land from American businessmen and give that land to Cubans. The US opposed this and decided that they will take action. After the revolution, many Cubans fled Cuba and those exiles would be trained by the CIA to launch the Bay of Pigs invasion on Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion failed to result in Cuba wanting help from someone such as the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union would aid Cuba by sending nuclear warheads to prevent any sort of American invasion. Both the Soviets and Americans were desperate at not wanting to start a nuclear war decided to get rid of nuclear warheads. Castro would feel betrayed by Kruschev the Soviet leader at the time. Despite that Castro would still have good relations with the Soviet Union and would be invited to visit the Soviet Union. There he would visit 14 cities with Kruschev and would be awarded some medals. He would return to Cuba pushing towards more ideas inspired by the visit to the Soviet Union. Fidel Castro would be in power for a long time until 2006 where he stepped down as the leader of Cuba and letting his brother Raul Castro assumed power. Castro would suffer from health problems until November 25, 2016, he would die. The Cuban government has not disclosed any information about how he has died. During Castro's life pushed for anti-imperialist ideas and wanted smaller nations to be a part of something big.