Fidel resented this and sought recognition ... the letter to FDR is its familiar tone and the fact that at such a young age Castro addressed the world’s most powerful man almost as a peer ...

In November 1940, a young Cuban student named Fidel Castro sent a handwritten letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Writing in English, Castro congratulated the president on his reelection ...

That's why Castro's parents, from the eastern city of Birán, sent a young Fidel to school in Santiago. Labaceno said the region's isolation also bred a revolutionary spirit that has endured for ...

2 of 13 — Portrait of a young Fidel Castro in New York in the 1950s. Castro got involved in revolutionary politics as a teenager and studied law at the University of Havana. As a young lawyer ...

A cleareyed sense of the young Fidel Castro, and his Social Democratic aspirations for Cuba, would provide a shot in the arm to the move toward partial privatization and the larger process of ...

I n 1953, a young Fidel Castro was tried for his armed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The attack was a dismal failure ...

Batista's coup d'etat shattered Cuba's fragile democracy -- and the political aspirations of a young lawyer named Fidel Castro. Castro had been running for congress as member of a political party ...

Young people seem to take former president's death in stride. HAVANA, Cuba— -- Minutes after state television announced the death of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, concert halls shut ...

2 of 13 — Portrait of a young Fidel Castro in New York in the 1950s. Castro got involved in revolutionary politics as a teenager and studied law at the University of Havana. As a young lawyer, he ...