Poster of Fidel Castro with the message, More than ever, production and defense, June 1984, in the outskirts of Havanna, Cuba.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. He was loved by most of the people as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialism whose revolutionary regime advanced economic and social justice while securing Cubas independence from American imperialism.