Fidel Castro

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Born August 13, 1926 · Birán, Cuba

Died November 25, 2016

Also known as Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz

Biography

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and statesman who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008, and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

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Awards & recognition

Confucius Peace Prize · 2014
Order of Merit, 1st class · 2010
Order of Timor-Leste · 2010
Order of Omar Torrijos Herrera · 2009
Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo · 2009

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Order of the Quetzal · 2009
Order of the Crown of the Realm · 2001
Emblem of the Republic · 2000
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class · 2000
Order of the Liberator · 2000
Order of Belize · 1999
Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope · 1998
Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali · 1998
Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella · 1998
Order of Agostinho Neto · 1992
Order of Hồ Chí Minh · 1989
Grand Cross of the Order of the Aztec Eagle · 1988
Order of Eduardo Mondlane, 1st class · 1988
Order of Karl Marx · 1986
Order of Klement Gottwald · 1986
Order of Lenin · 1986
Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star · 1986
Order of Jamaica · 1977
Order of Merit · 1977
Order of the October Revolution · 1976
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1975
Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta · 1973
Collar of the Order of the White Lion · 1972
Grand Star of People's Friendship · 1972
Order of Georgi Dimitrov · 1972
Order of Lenin · 1972
Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania · 1972
Hero of the Soviet Union · 1963
Order of Lenin · 1963
Lenin Peace Prize · 1961
Bintang Mahaputera Adipurna · 1960
Order of the Nile · 1959
Al-Gaddafi International Prize — Human Rights
honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos
Order of José Martí