Cuba celebrates Fidel Castro’s 100th, revolutionary icon’s legacy continues amidst country’s current crisis

Fidel Castro’s legacy extends far beyond the Cuban Revolution, having profoundly shaped the country’s political, social and cultural life for more than five decades. His stamp of the nation’s identity remains indelible.

New Delhi: Cuba today is celebrating Fidel Castro’s 100th birth anniversary. The county’s Communist Party has spent the week celebrating the late revolutionary leader with exhibitions, concerts and conferences.

Castro is remembered by supporters as having guided Cuba through multiple crises. Be it combating US-backed invasions, embargoes, assassination plots and the intense hardship caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union, Castro remains Cuba’s most influential leader.

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Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, Oriente Province, as the illegitimate son of a wealthy........

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