Fidel Castro  

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"... New Left undoubtedly owed much to the Old Left, it was the Third World that provided many of its heroes and theorists, including Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong and Frantz Fanon."--The Columbia History of the 20th Century (1998) by Richard W. Bulliet

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Fidel Castro (1926 – 2016) was a Cuban politician, dictator, and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as from 1959 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, under his administration Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms implemented throughout society.

He was photographed alongside Che Guevara by Alberto Korda in 1961.

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