Fidel Castro

1926–2016 · Cuban revolutionary and political leader

Fidel Castro led the revolutionary movement that overthrew Fulgencio Batista’s government in 1959. He then governed Cuba as prime minister and president, overseeing the consolidation of a one-party communist state and a long confrontation with the United States.

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4 quotes we’ve traced to Fidel Castro

“Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me”

Verified

“I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life”

Disputed

“The first duty of the revolutionaries is to tell the truth”

Disputed

“The United States will come to talk to us when we have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope”

Disputed

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