Fidel Castro Quotes

Cuba, Politician
August 13, 1926 – November, 25, 2016.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈhandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus] ( listen); August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban politician and communist revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, Castro also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout the society.

Also known as Lawyer, Soldier

They corrupt the morals of young girls and destroy posters of Che! What do they think? That this is a bourgeois liberal regime? NO! There is nothing liberal in us! We are collectivists! We are communists! There will be no Prague Spring here!

Fidel Castro
- Spring
scorn relations with the imperialist Government of the United States, a Government of genocide and decadence..We have supported, we are supporting and we shall sup port revolutionary movements in Latin America...We feel very well outside the O.A.S., in fact better than inside. The O.A.S. is an organization that is bound to disappear.

Fidel Castro

Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.)

Fidel Castro
- Great