Fidel Castro's Rise To Power

Cuba’s government is currently a totalitarian state since the revolution on January 1st in 1959. The head of state is currently Fidel Castro, also the Chief of State, as well as the Head of Government, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born August 13th in 1926 to Angel Castro, a Spanish farmer living fairly well in Biran, Orient province. Growing up Angel …

…nd 1959 Fidel made his first speech to a large crowd from the same Moncada Fortress where his movement began five and a half years ago, he had finally succeeded in liberating Cuba. On January 6th Fidel made a speech to the public about peace, and caution against accepting dictatorships, people praised him as their “Savior of the Fatherland”. After being pressured the Cuban government offered Fidel the place of Prime Minister, which Fidel accepted graciously.