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On August 13, 1926 in Biran, Cuba Fidel Castro was born. He was the third of six children, he had two brothers; Ramon and Raul; and three sisters, Angela, Emma and Agustina.
Fidel was born into a wealthy family, his father being a sugar plantation owner. Fidel attended the best schools in Cuba, he attended private jesuit boarding schools. Fidel was always top of his class, he exceeded in every subject getting him into a good colleges. Fidel was also a athlete and just like his studies he was an expert at athletics. Fidel attended Colegio Dolores in Santiago de Cuba, he also attended Colegio de Belen in Havana. Fidel pitched for the school's baseball team, he also played basketball and ran track. Fidel graduated in 1945 , however Castro decided to join law school in the University of Havana. Castro was getting really interested by the politics and problems in Cuba, that lead to him not focusing on his studies.
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This lead to the U.S to have worries on Cuba and didn't want to get involved with any problems, they cut Cuba's import on sugar. Thus beginning another era of dislike towards each other.
The year of 1960 was the year that Cuba showed their relationship with U.S. On January 3, 1961, president Dwight Eisenhower was leaving office and he cut everything with Cuba. On April 14, Castro officially announced Cuba as a socialist state. From there CAstro was hated by his people and was actually almost assassinated 638 times. To make things worse later on the Soviets economy will drastically die leaving Cuba in really bad economics as well.
Castro was struggling with health problems and turned his power over to his brother Raul. Castro died November 25, 2016 as soon as people found out about his death they rejoiced. They rejoiced that the tyrant they believed was finally gone, it was because of him many innocent cubans died and many families were

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