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Biogarafía de Fidel Castro en ingles

Answer 1

Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro, the illegitimate son of a successful Creole sugar plantation owner, was born in Cuba in 1926. He was a rebellious boy and at the age of thirteen helped to organize a strike of sugar workers on his father's plantation.

Both his parents were illiterate but they were determined that their children should receive a good education and Fidel was sent to a Jesuit boarding school. Although he disliked the strict discipline of the school, Fidel soon showed that he was extremely intelligent. However, except for history, he preferred sports to academic subjects. Fidel was good at running, soccer and baseball, and in 1944 was awarded the prize as Cuba's best all-round school athlete.

After he had finished his education Castro became a lawyer in Havana. As he tended to take the cases of poor people who could not afford to pay him, Castro was constantly short of money. Castro's experience as a lawyer made him extremely critical of the great inequalities in wealth that existed in Cuba. Like many other Cubans, Castro resented the wealth and power of the American businessmen who appeared to control the country.

In 1947 Castro joined the Cuban People's Party. He was attracted to this new party's campaign against corruption, injustice, poverty, unemployment and low wages. The Cuban People's Party accused government ministers of taking bribes and running the country for the benefit of the large United States corporations that had factories and offices in Cuba.

In 1952 Fidel Castro became a candidate for Congress for the Cuban People's Party. He was a superb public speaker and soon built up a strong following amongst the young members of the party. The Cuban People's Party was expected to win the election but during the campaign. General Fulgencio Batista, with the support of the armed forces, took control of the country.

Castro came to the conclusion that revolution was the only way that the Cuban People's Party would gain power. In 1953, Castro, with an armed group of 123 men and women, attacked the Moncada Army Barracks. The plan to overthrow Batista ended in disaster and although only eight were killed in the fighting, another eighty were murdered by the army after they were captured. Castro was lucky that the lieutenant who arrested him ignored orders to have him executed and instead delivered him to the nearest civilian prison.

Castro also came close to death in prison. Captain Pelletier was instructed to put poison in Castro's food. The man refused and instead revealed his orders to the Cuban people. Pelletier was court-martialed but, concerned about world opinion, Batista decided not to have Castro killed.

Castro was put on trial charged with organising an armed uprising. He used this opportunity to make a speech about the problems of Cuba and how they could be solved. His speech later became a book entitled History Will Absolve Me. Castro was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. The trial and the publication of the book made Castro famous in Cuba. His attempted revolution had considerable support in the country. After all, the party he represented would probably have won the election in 1952 had it been allowed to take place. Following considerable pressure from the Cuban population, Fulgencio Batista decided to release Castro after he had served only two years of his sentence. Batista also promised elections but when it became clear that they would not take place, Castro left for Mexico where he began to plan another attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.

After building up a stock of guns and ammunition, Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida, and eighty other rebels arrived in Cuba in 1956. This group became known as the July 26 Movement (the date that Castro had attacked the Moncada barracks). Their plan was to set up their base in the Sierra Maestra mountains. On the way to the mountains they were attacked by government troops. By the time they reached the Sierra Maestra there were only sixteen men left with twelve weapons between them. For the next few months Castro's guerrilla army raided isolated army garrisons and were gradually able to build-up their stock of weapons.
Saludos.

Answer 2

Castro was born in 1926 on the paternal estate of Birán (then in the municipality of Mayarí and the former province of Oriente and now respectively municipality of Cueto and province of Holguín). He was the natural son of a Galician emigre, Ángel Castro Argiz, married in his second marriage years later8 with Lina Ruz González, a descendant of Spaniards.9 Fidel was eight and a half years old when he was baptized, and until his father did not get a divorce Of his first wife, Maria Luisa Argota Reyes, and was able to contract new nuptials with Lina Ruz.10 Both parents were illiterate, although the two learned to read in their maturity. His father, of humble origin, would finally achieve a solid economic position. At age four Fidel began to study in a small school in Birán. Because of his outstanding intelligence, his parents decided to send him to Santiago de Cuba at the age of six, along with his sister Angelita (1923-2012), 11 in the care of her teacher at Birán. The economic situation of his family in 1932, Castro experienced hunger, since the governess who took care of him used his allowance to support his whole family, during a period of special economic hardship in the country.
In 1934 entered the Lasallian school of Santiago. In September 1939, he would enroll in the Colegio de Dolores, of the Jesuits, also in Santiago de Cuba.14 In 1942 he entered the Belen School in Havana, where he was selected as the best athlete of the year 1943-1944. 1945, along with his brother-in-law, Rafael Diaz-Balart, his best friend then and then staunch enemy.