The disorganized and chaotic nature of these failed enterprises played an important role in shaping Castro's views on political discipline and the suppression of dissident views and factions within the revolutionary movement. As a militant university activist, Fidel participated, in 1947, in an attempt to invade the Dominican Republic to provoke an uprising against Trujillo, and in the 1948 "Bogotazo," the widespread rioting that shook the Colombian capital after the assassination of Liberal leader Eliecer Gaitán. Upon entering the University of Havana Law School in 1945, he began his political life by collaborating with one of the various political gangster groups that plagued the university.
Fidel attended a Jesuit high school, regarded as one of the best schools in Cuba. He held supreme political power in Cuba for more than 47 years, and even after having left high office he continued to be politically engaged for several years meeting with numerous foreign personalities and writing his Reflexiones in the Cuban Communist Party press.įidel was a son of Cuban-born Lina Ruz and Galician immigrant Ángel Castro, who became a wealthy sugar landlord in the island. efforts to overthrow his government and physically eliminate him including the sponsorship of invasions, numerous assassination attempts and terrorist attacks. AFTER A long illness that forced him to withdraw from office in July 2006, Fidel Castro died on November 25.
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