Tell Fidel in Cuba is Fidel Castro. On Saturday, August 13 it will turn 90. A date impossible to forget. Throughout that year, most of the acts, are political or recreational,are organized to pay tribute to the man who ruled the island from 1959 until his retirement in 2008.
While he was at the helm, his face was just public iconography. But since his ailments forced his retirement half - was how to reference and "soldier of ideas" - posters with his classic olive green uniform and beard, white and sparse, splashed thecountry's streets. Only sometimes, and others along with his brother and successor,Raúl Castro.
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People who live in the island and only have access to the television open and official not can escape to the propaganda. 'For the 90th birthday of Fidel', ' 90 in his 90's, is titled, and so on. At the beginning of the summer it opened in the capital, into thecrowded art space on the ramp, the exhibition 'still and will continue being, as I promised, a soldier of ideas while you think or breathe', showing a young, mature, and old Fidel Castro.
Also in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela have organized tributes by the date. There is no cultural activity, presentation of books, exhibitions with unpublished photographs, performance of troubadours, dance orchestras that are not dedicated to the nonagenarian birthday.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in Biran, Holguin, the 13 of August of 1926. Had seven years the first time that saw the sea in Santiago de Cuba, where studied. There he brandished rifles for the failed assault on the Moncada barracks on July 26, 1953, considered the start of the revolution that would begin in 1958 from the SierraMaestra against Fulgencio Batista.
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In little more than one year, the bearded took the island. On first of January 1959, the dictator fled. The caravan of victorious rebels, with Fidel Castro to head, entered January 8 in Havana.
For almost 50 years, the 'Commander' planted face to United States, pushed the 'tropical socialism', whose pillars are education, health, sports, culture and science, "a paradigm of underdeveloped country with comparable progress with European countries", says an observer. The weakest point is the economical, whose reform advances Raúl Castro.
With a resistance numantina, the leader historical of which is said has survived to more than 600 attacks organized or with the approval of the House white became toCuba in reference of the left international. Even his opponents deny that it is surviving statesman of the most significant events of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is loveand hate with the same passion.
Those who have seen him closely, although they do not share their ideology and belief that you can achieve more justice and peace in the world, are perplexed.
Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defensa de EE. UU. de los presidentes John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, saw Fidel Castro as the most dangerous character duringthe Missile Crisis. In the 2002, with occasion of a Conference by the 40th anniversaryof that dangerous time world, held in the Havana, the U.S. is dismissed with a "we see in the sky", to what Castro corrected with sense of the humor: "not, us see in the hell".
A constant in his life is insatiable knowledge, why not respected sleep schedules. That happened Bill in 2006.
Who pigeonholed it as a political leader, osco, insensitive and dogmatic man who would die with their boots on, see through different eyes after his resignation, in 2008, to the Presidency of the Council of State and Ministers. Years ago it changed military footwear and uniform shoes and sportswear.
Figures such as Nelson Mandela, Gabriel García Márquez, Jack Lemon, Alice Walker,Kevin Costner or Hugo Chávez have revered it. Since his voluntary retirement receive who fancy. One of the last was Francis Pope and French President François Hollande.
Their causes do not fall on deaf ears. His stubborn conviction that the world can bebetter, she promoted internationalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
His interest in all subjects linked to human thinking, and its deep power in what hebelieves for the majority, spread to people who are close to him or read his speeches, once more than five hours on average. He pioneered warn of damage causing to the environment by man.
Now retired from their posts, only maintained the Deputy for Santiago de Cuba andis engaged in the study of moringa. A straw hat headdress usually walk, each time with greater difficulty since the years do not forgive, by the planting of shrubs whosegreat nutritional benefits could, says, reverting may repeat
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