Fidel Castro: The anti-imperialist giant who was born to wake up the world (+Christmas)

On August 13, 1926, the province of Birán, Cuba saw the birth of the boy who would become the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, who over the years led the struggle of the Cuban people towards the consolidation of their independence and the transformation of the economic, political and social system under socialist values, developing education, health, sports, culture, science and defense through an energetic foreign policy based on principles, characterized by solidarity with peoples who are fighting for their independence and progress.

Fidel Castro studied law at the University of Havana, where he received his doctorate in 1950. However, his revolutionary ideas caused him to wield a rifle, then participating as in the uprising against the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in Santo Domingo (1947); its failure motivated his exile in Mexico. Returning to Cuba, he was a member of the Cuban People's Party, and a few years later he resumed his revolutionary activity, this time against the iron dictatorship established in 1952, after a coup d'etat, by General Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958), who put the country at the service of his own advantage and North American interests.

After leading the triumphant Cuban Revolution of 1959, which brought together a wide spectrum of social sectors and political formations against the subservient and corrupt Batista dictatorship, Fidel Castro immediately embarked on a socialist policy that included agrarian reform and the expropriation of the assets of North American companies, dignifying the Cuban people who were in the deepest conditions of violation by the predominantly American foreign population which prevailed in the country.

Commander Fidel Castro led the participation of hundreds of thousands of Cuban fighters in internationalist missions in Algeria, Syria, Angola, Ethiopia and other countries. He led the resistance of the Cuban people to face the effects of the economic blockade imposed by the United States for more than forty years and promoted on a global scale the battle of the peoples of the Third World against the current international economic order and promoted comprehensive programs of Cuban assistance and collaboration in the field of health in numerous countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Without a doubt, Fidel Castro, together with Commander Hugo Chávez, is one of the most visionary, humanist and supportive men that Latin America has given birth to, because with his ideas they have left an exceptional legacy for our peoples and for the future.

Mazo News Team