Fidel Castro: Difference between revisions

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He was born to a millionaire [[Spanish people|Spanish]] father<ref name="contradictions">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3605326/Castros-contradictions.html|title=Castro's contradictions|publisher=The Telegraph}}</ref> and went to the most elite schools. He started a political career at early age and was a recognized figure in politics.<ref name="Leonard"/> He ran democratically for parliament in 1952 elections. Opposing [[Fulgencio Batista]]<ref>{{cite book | last =DePalma | first =Anthony | year = 2006 | month = | url = | title =The Man Who Invented Fidel | publisher =Public Affairs}}</ref>, he eventually led the failed 1953 attack on the [[Moncada Barracks]], after which he was captured, tried, incarcerated and later released. He then traveled to Mexico<ref name="The Spirit Of Moncada">{{cite web | last =Bockman | first =Larry James | authorlink = | coauthors = |date= | year = 1984 | month =April 1 | url =http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1984/BLJ.htm | title =The Spirit Of Moncada: Fidel Castro's Rise To Power, 1953 - 1959 | format = | work = | pages = | publisher = | language = | accessdate =2006-06-13 }}</ref><ref name="Sweig">{{cite book |first=Julia E. |last=Sweig |year=2002 | title=Inside the Cuban Revolution |publisher= Harvard University Press |isbn=0-674-00848-0}}</ref> to organize and train for an assault on Batista's Cuba. He and his fellow revolutionaries left Mexico for the East of Cuba in December 1956.