Photo of Fidel Castro pinned to the wall of a house with the Cuban flag, June 1984, in the village of Pico Turquino, Sierra Maestra Mountains.
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.