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Juana de la Caridad "Juanita" Castro Ruz (/ ˈ k æ s t r oʊ / KASS-troh, Latin American Spanish: [ˈxwana ðe la kaɾiˈða(ð) xwaˈnita ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 6 May 1933 – 4 December 2023) was a Cuban-American activist and writer, as well as the sister of Fidel and Raúl, both former presidents of Cuba, and Ramón, a key figure of the Cuban Revolution.
Alpha 66 was founded by Cuban exiles in the early 1960s to act as an anti-Castro, paramilitary group. [2]Although it has undergone changes in personnel and leadership, it still exists today and is based out of Florida. [4]
Ramón, the eldest of the Castro brothers, the son of Ángel Castro, a Spanish-born rancher, and his second wife, Lina Ruz, grew up on his family's large farm in Birán, Holguin province, in eastern Cuba. Ramon Castro, who studied agricultural engineering, spent his life tending crops and livestock.
With Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart ("Fidelito"; September 1, 1949 – February 1, 2018), Cuban physicist; Fidel Castro's first-born son. With his former wife Natasha Smirnova, he had three children: Mirta María Castro-Smirnova (born 1984), lives in Spain, and teaches applied mathematics at the University of Seville;
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':Cuba of yesterday ') is a mythologized idyllic view of Cuba before the overthrow of the Batista government in the Cuban Revolution. This idealized vision of pre-revolutionary Cuba typically reinforces the ideas that Cuba before 1959 was an elegant, sophisticated, and largely white country that was ruined by the government of Fidel Castro. The ...
According to Fidel Castro five were killed in the attack on the Moncada Barracks, and 56 were executed later by the Batista regime in the attack on the Moncada Barracks and the Bayamo Barracks) [18] [non-primary source needed] Eighteen rebels captured in the Civil Hospital were immediately executed in the Moncada small-arms target range within ...
Ramón M. Barquín (12 May 1914 – 3 March 2008) was a Cuban military colonel and opponent of former President Fulgencio Batista. Barquín was jailed by the Batista government for leading a failed coup attempt in 1956. He later fled Cuba in 1960 following the 1959 takeover by Fidel Castro.