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Fidel Castro

Governed Cuba as Prime Minister 1959-1976 and as President 1976 -2008.
Fidel Castro
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Fidel Castro was a politician and a revolutionary who served as Cuba's prime minister from 1959 -1976 and then as President from 1976 – 2008.

Castro died in November 2016.

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