Fidel Castro Cuban Revolutioner

Fidel Castro Ruz was born August 13, 1926, on a sugar plantation in eastern Cuba, the son of a Spanish immigrant landholder and a household servant. A powerful and charismatic speaker, he soon emerged as one of the leaders in the growing movement against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
Fidel Castro spent his youngest years on his father's farm, but spent most of his youth in Catholic boarding schools, excelling at sports.

Castro Cuba’s Revolutioner
In 1945, Castro began law school at the University of Havana and quickly became involved in politics. In 1947, Castro joined the Caribbean Legion, a group of political exiles from Caribbean countries who planned to rid the Caribbean of dictator-led governments. When Castro joined, the Legion was planning to overthrow Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic but the plan was later canceled because of international pressure.

In 1948, Castro traveled to Bototá, Colombia with plans to disrupt the Pan-American Union Conference, when country-wide riots broke out in response to the assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán. Castro grabbed a rifle and joined the rioters. While handing out anti-U.S. pamphlets to the crowds, Castro gained first-hand experience of popular uprisings.

After returning to Cuba, Castro married co-student Mirta Diaz-Balart in October 1948. Castro and Mirta had one child together. In the morning of July 26, 1953, Castro, his brother Raúl, and a group of about 160 armed men attacked the second-largest military base in Cuba - the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Confronted with hundreds of trained soldiers at the base, there was little chance that the attack could have succeeded. Although 60 of Castro's rebels were killed, Castro and Raúl were captured and then given a trial.

After delivering a speech at his trial which ended with, "Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me," Castro was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released two years later, in May 1955.  Upon his release, Castro went to Mexico where he spent the next year organizing the "26th of July Movement" (based on the date of the failed Moncada Barracks attack).

On December 2, 1956, Castro and the rest of the 26th of July Movement rebels landed on Cuban soil with the intention of starting a revolution. Met by heavy Batista defenses, nearly everyone in the Movement was killed, with merely a handful escaping, including Castro, Raúl, and Che Guevara.

For the next two years, Castro continued guerrilla attacks and succeeded in gaining large numbers of volunteers.

Using guerrilla warfare tactics, Castro and his supporters attacked Batista's forces, overtaking town after town.

Batista quickly lost popular support and suffered numerous defeats. On January 1, 1959, Batista fled Cuba.

In his later years, Mr. Castro cultivated a strong friendship and alliance with Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez. Together, the two men worked to counter U.S. influence in Latin America - and met some success in mobilizing anti-American sentiment in the hemisphere.

Another Cuba specialist, Thomas Paterson of the University of Connecticut, compares Mr. Castro to Chinese leader Mao Zedong, and believes he will be remembered this way.

"I think he will be remembered much as Mao Zedong is remembered in China as one who overthrew a corrupt, dictatorial system, who embodied the identity of his nation, who pushed out foreigners," said Paterson. "At the same time, as is the case of the Chinese critique of Mao today, there will be a criticism of him as authoritarian, repressive and having imposed incredible sacrifices on the Cuban people." 

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VINCENT VAN GOGH

 Van Gogh was a world famous painter. Vincent was born on march 30 1853 in Zundert Holland Vincent became an art dealer apprentice, but decided to become a pastor, like his father. in 1879 Vincent’s extreme self-martyrdom way of preaching was considered unacceptable and he was dismissed from preaching by his superiors. after preaching he gave away all of his possessions and spent a year in solitude in a hovel. when he returned he decided to become an artist and moved in with his parents and lived with them for two years. he then moved in with his brother Theo who had become an art dealer. Vincent was entirely financially dependent on his brother. his favorite color was yellow and he used it in the majority of his paintings. in 1886 he had a fit of epilepsy and attacked his friend with a razor, but he ended up cutting off a portion of his earlobe. he later gave the part of his ear to his girlfriend at the time sien. at age 37 he committed suicide by shooting himself

throughout Vincent’s life he was known for having mental instability. he had cases of ellipsy, depression, and delusions. Vincent’s signs of having bipolar disorder appeared during the last few years of his life. there were times when Vincent was highly enthusiastic and dedicated to religion. during these times, he was also very productive with his paintings. these periods were followed by periods of depression and he would become extremely exhausted. Vincent drank a lot of Thujone which was popular among artists at the time. Thujone is a highly toxic alcoholic beverage. it is said that Vincent’s drinking made his manic depression worse. on July 27, 1890 Vincent shot himself in the chest in a wheat field. he returned to his home and died two days later.

Che Guevara A major figure of the Cuban Revolution

Ernesto "Che" Guevara June 14 1928-9 October 1967), commonly known as El Che or just Che was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, medical writer, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. An important figure of the Cuban revolution, his face has become a stylized symbol cons-ubiquitous culture of rebellion and logos in the world of popular culture .

As a young medical student, Guevara's trip through Latin America and has been radically transformed by the endemic poverty and alienation that has been witnessed. His experience and observations during these trips led him to conclude that the region is rooted in economic inequalities were an intrinsic consequence of capitalism, monopoly, neocolonialism and imperialism, with the only remedy is revolution World.  This belief prompted his involvement in social reform with the President of Guatemala Jacobo Arbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, met Raul and Fidel Castro, has joined the Movement July 26, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.  Guevara soon rose to its place among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command, and played a key role in the success of the two-year campaign of guerrilla war that toppled the Batista regime .

After the Cuban revolution, Guevara made a number of key roles in the new government. These included a review of appeals and the firing squad of convicted as war criminals before the revolutionary courts, , the implementation of agrarian reform as minister of industry, helping to run a campaign successful literacy across the country, serving as president of the National Bank and director of education of the armed forces of Cuba, which spans the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. T
hese positions also allowed him to play a central role in the formation of militia forces that repelled the invasion of Playa Girón  and brought to Cuba from Soviet ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons that precipitated the missile crisis Cuban 1962.  In addition, he was a prolific writer and columnist, writing a basic manual on guerrilla warfare, and the sale of a memory of his youth motorcycle trip in South America. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo - Kinshasa and then in Bolivia, where he was captured by the forces of the CIA in Bolivia with the help and executed.
Guevara is still revered and hated both a historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination of a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, films and songs. Following his martyrdom perceived poetic invocations of class struggle and desire to create awareness of a "new man" driven by non-moral incentives and equipment, but has become an icon of various leftist movements of inspiration. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century,  while an Alberto Korda photograph of him entitled Heroic Guerrilla (see photo), said: "The most famous photograph in the world .

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