Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz who was born in August 13, 1926. He is a Cuban Communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. He served as the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008, and also as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 1961 until 2011.
It is a picture that Fidel Castro stood in front of National Hero Havana's statue. The illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imperialist politics while studying law at the University of Havana . After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia , he planned the overthrow of the United States-backed military junta of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista , and served a year's imprisonment in 1953 after a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks . Returning to Cuba, Castro led the Cuban Revolution which ousted Batista in 1959, and brought his own assumption of military and political power. Castro formed an economic and military alliance with the Soviets, and allowed them to place nuclear weapons on the island, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.