Fidel Castro

BY: Greg Johnson

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• Fidel was a very rich man.

• He was also smart, His favorite subject was military history.

• Fidel attended a corrupt school. (The kids could buy the test answers)

• In 1947 Fidel forgot studying and through him self into politics.

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• In the summer of 1947 Fidel joined his 1st foreign avenger, and got military training.

• In his 1st mission he had to jump off the ship he was on and swim 8 miles across shark invested waters.

• After that Fidel kind of started his own group or mob.

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• On October 12 1948 Fidel married / Mirta- Diaz- Balart.

• They had a son on September 1st 1949

• Fidel was more focused on politics then on money.

• This upset his wife.

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• Around 1952 Fidel made a attempt to capture a military base so he could get weapons and other military supplies.

• It was a big fail he was captured and put on trial.

• Fidel said “ I do not fear prison.”

• Fidel planed to restore Cuba’s constitution of 1940.

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• On May 15th 1955 Fidel was released from prison, then he went to Mexico.

• He immediately started to recruit people from Cuba, he brought them to Mexico and gave them military training.

• In 1956 Fidel bought weapons and a 56 foot yacht.

• On December 2nd 1956 Fidel returned to Cuba.

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• 2 years and 1 month after returning to Cuba Fidel ruled it.

• Fidel did not win from war but through propaganda, disappearing of his rivals, and unremitting sabotage in the cities.

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• Fidel’s first attack on Cuba happened on January 17,1957. Fidel and 28 men attacked the a tiny garrison.

• He captured and burned it, taking guns, ammo, and food.

• It was the first rebel victory with no men lost.

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• All of the rebel’s strikes were on a small scale.

• American press built Fidel’s reputation.

• In March, 58 recruits came and joined the rebels.

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• On May 28, 1957 the rebels stormed the base at El Uvero west of Santiago, they capture a truck of supplies, which they needed badly.

• This attack showed that Fidel could defeat Cuba’s army.

• Fidel was as concerned with fighting as he was in politics.

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• Unexpectedly beginning on September America CIA started to channel Fidel 50,000 dollars.

• By the end of the year Fidel controlled a organized territory in sierra.

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• In this controlled area there was a mountain base with a hospital, leather workshop, butcher factory, cigar factory, and a issued mimeographed news paper.

• They slept in wooden shacks or hammocks and rarely bathed.

• They had long beards and wore scruffy olive drab uniforms.

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• The men got supplies through road less mountain by mule train, the supplies went through small villages that acted like look out bases, They spotted and strangers and suspicious activity.

• Weapons were hard to get up to the base because the Cuban army guarded the base of the mountain but they managed to get some weapons through.

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• Fidel turned Cuba into a dictatorship.

• Fidel might still be alvie today some people say that he is dead but no one is sure.

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