Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born near Biran in Orient Province, Cuba, in 1926. He was the third child born to Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Angel became wealthy from laying track for the sugar railway and transporting the cane. Castro attended public school near the town of Mayari. He then enrolled in Santiago de Cuba's La Salle School, run by French Priests. Castro was often undisciplined and his father sent him to Dolores Colegio, a private Catholic school renowned for its discipline and high academic standards. There he saw how American soldiers treated Cubans as inferiors and came to resent American influence in Cuba's political affairs. In 1940 he attended the Belen Secondary School. There he studied Cuban history and Jose Marti, the father of the Cuban independence movement. While enrolled in the University of Havana Law School he became involved in the school's politics. Politics was usually violent there, with fights between rival political gangs. He became bored with university politics and became a member of the Party of the Cuban People, or the Ortodoxo Party. The Ortodoxos exposed the government's corruption under Rao Grau San Martin, of the Autentico Party. They demanded reform, advo
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