Fidel Castro Research Paper

Fidel Castro was born near Birán, Cuba on August 13, 1926. Birán is located on Cuba's Eastern Oriente Province. Fidel was the third of six children in his family including his two brothers and three sisters. Hid dad Ángel was a wealthy sugar plantation owner who was originally from Spain. His moms name was Lina Ruz González. She was a maid of Ángels first wife Maria Luis Argota which was around the time of his birth. When Fidel was 15, Ángel ended the marriage with his first wife and got married to Fidel's mom Lina Ruz González. At the age of 17 Fidel got his name after it was changed from Ruz to Castro.

He grew up in a wealthy family around a bunch of poor people in Cuba. Was a troublemaker and got in trouble at his school Colegio Dolores
With only 18 survivors, including Castro, his brother Raúl, and Guevara. They then fled into the Sierra Maestra Mountains with virtually no weapons or supplies. Later on, In 1958, Batista tried to kill the uprising of Castro with a massive attack. This was done with air force bombers, plus naval units. The guerrillas held their ground, by counterattacking. Then one week later Castro arrived in Havana and took over power as prime minister ("Cuba Before the Revolution").

Cuba pre-revolutionary was a hard, unfair, and poor time in Cuba. The president at the time was Fulgencio Batista. Batista had many bad ideas plans. His economic planning was very poor. He let American imperialism into Cuba, and had a corrupt military and government. Which would lead to the revolution of Fidel Castro.

During this time only 58% of the people had electricity and only 35% had running water in there homes. This also meant that only 28% of the population had toilets, and only 44% of people had showers. This led to many people being unhappy, unhealthy, and the people in the countryside had nothing. When Castro took over power he got the countryside electricity and water. And helped build other things like schools. ("Cuba before the