FIDEL CASTRO : THE MAN WHO NEVER SURRENDERED

• Born on August,13 1926 the illegitimate son of a sugarcane planter, Fidel Castro was an Cuban politician and revolutionary of Republic of Cuba. 

• Excellence in both academics and sport he entered college in 1945 and joined many of the groups having strong political base in university of Hawana. 

• By the time he got his degree in 1950 he was already leading the law students federation, became one of the founding member of new liberal reformist party  and participated in two foreign political uprisings in Colombia and Dominican  Republic. 

• When Fulgencio Batista became dictator of Cuba in 1952, he cancelled the Congressional Elections. Fidel Castro had ran for these Parliamentary election of 1952 however he was never officially nominated. 

• After the elections were cancelled Castro organised insurgency campaigns against the illegitimate rule of Batista. 

• After years of Guirella training Fidel forces were finally able to defeat Batista army and send him to exile. 

• Fidel Castro was now the Cuban leader and hero of his people. He was the hope for the lower class peoples. 

• But he soon became the treat in the America's eye who was having a political and economic interest in Cuba. 

• The tensions rises to its peak during John F Kenndy rule in America, when the CIA sponsored military group Brigade 2506 invaded the Bay of Pig in Cuba, however this was proved to be a failed attempt to overthrow the Communist Fidel government. 

• But above all the real tension started when the Soviet Union installed Nuclear Missiles in Cuba having the striking distance on the whole United States. This is known as the famous "Cuba Missile Crises". It was very dramatic and proved to be one of the most dangerous situation in the history of this modern world. 

• Kennedy said that "any attack from the Cuba on any of the country in western hemisphere will be the attack of Soviet Union on America". This resulted in the deterioration of America and Cuba relations and they end up all diplomatic relations too by 1961. 

• Fidel officially declared Cuba as Socialist and captured all foreign assents and distributed among Cubans. He done all possible things to prove the world that his state is not an American colony in the meantime he was also careful not to be shown as Soviet puppet. 

• Fidel also sends thousands of soldiers to support the left wing in Africa. He sends his army to Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia and also Yemen, in short a small Island country was playing as a superpower of the world. 

• In Cuba he started measures to eradicate illiteracy and nationalized the health care system to provide free medical aid to all Cubans. Despite of the claimed progress he continued to be the dictator of the Cuba and his power was questioned after the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991. 

• The help from the Soviet stopped and his country came under financial and economic crises. As a result of this crises thousand of Cubans started fleeting toward the Southern United States. 

• However his powerful image of an anti- American provided him support of other Latin American countries, He announced temporarily in 2006 to transfer the power to his brother because of his bad health condition. 

• In 2008 he decided to not return to his office. He claimed that USA tried over 600 times to assassinate him.

• On November,26 2016 he took his last breath in Santiago Di, Cuba. But before leaving this world his tiny but powerful state was able to challenge the superpower of the world. Some of them consider him as a hero, some not. But he proved that a strong will power can challenge any other power regardless of its status and size.