With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people. At times, he claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month and ...

Watching “The Fidel Castro Tapes,” the viewer knows ... with mustache but no beard. Least Castro-like of all is hearing him speak English, which he does surprisingly often over the course ...

“The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Body ... to wear a suit and confessed that the main reason he has a beard is so he did not have to shave every day.

In an interesting touch, Fidel Castro banned Christmas ... They gestured toward their chin, indicating a beard. He and his gang killed tens of thousands, surely. The exact number is hard to ...

Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader who put Cuba ... The communist adversary for 10 U.S. presidents, Castro wore his trademark beard and army fatigues for nearly five decades, giving fiery ...

Years before Fidel Castro, the defiant leader of revolutionary ... full faced, with a straggly beard," wrote Herbert L. Matthews in his exclusive front-page story in The New York Times.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the charismatic icon of ... With his trademark fatigues and scruffy beard, Castro wore his defiance of Western capitalism like a badge of honor, accomplishing ...

Fidel Castro had a large family, and was one of six siblings. He married twice and had nine children. He kept his trademark fatigues and beard to the end, though after handing over power he also ...

Fidel Castro survived no fewer than 634 attempts ... shoes with thallium salts — which would have made Castro's iconic beard fall out. Like the hundreds of other plots against Castro, all ...

Fidel Castro, who led a Cuban revolution that made ... chomping monstrous cigars through a bushy black beard, became a spiritual beacon for the world’s political far left. To his legion of ...

Ramon Castro wore a long beard and was at times mistaken for leader Fidel Castro, who was about the same height and stature, but he preferred tilling the earth to stirring armed revolution.