Description: 1943 High School Yearbook featuring students and teachers, activities and sports, candids and local advertisement, and including junior student and basketball guard and future Cuban revolutionary and leader, Fidel Castro. Great photos, and period subjects and design. Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Born in Biran, Oriente, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law in Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow right wing president of Cuba Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic embargo, and CIA led counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962. Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a socialist state, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Included were policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education and affordable housing and jobs programs. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of socialist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Ogaden and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chavez's Venezuela – and formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. Castro's supporters view him as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialism whose revolutionary government advanced economic and social justice while securing Cuba's independence from U.S. hegemony. Good Condition softcover with tight binding and text and clean pages, with no must or mildew or missing pieces, and shelf wear to the corners and edges of the covers.Thank you for stopping by! Spanky's Archive, over 8500 Ebay positive feedback and 35 years in the hobby.
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