Three out of five of his sons with Dalia have versions of the name Alexander, which is the pseudonym that Fidel used when he was a guerrilla fighter. Getty Alexis Castro Soto del Valle. The photo above is from Today, Alex is a Cuban photographer and cinematographist.
He may sometimes be referred to as Angelito. Her father was angry when, as a model, she posed in a bikini for a publication. In , she left Cuba while disguised as a Spanish tourist and came to the United States. She has one daughter, pictured below in a photo from In , her Aunt Juanita sued Alina for defamation over passages about her grandparents in her book.
An English version of the book does not have the disputed copy, The Miami Herald reported. By the end of , Castro's revolution had become radicalized, with purges of military and government leaders — including President Urrutia — and the suppression of any media critical of Castro's policies. Castro's government also began to establish relations with the Soviet Union. In February , Cuba signed a trade agreement to buy oil from the Soviet Union and established diplomatic relations.
When U. The year proved to be pivotal in Castro's relationship with the United States. On January 3, , outgoing President Eisenhower broke off diplomatic relations with the Cuban government.
On April 14th, Castro formally declared Cuba a socialist state. Three days later, some 1, Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the remote Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow the Castro regime. The incursion ended in disaster, with hundreds of the insurgents killed and more than 1, captured.
Though the United States denied any involvement, it was revealed that the Cuban exiles had been trained by the Central Intelligence Agency and armed with American weapons. Decades later, the National Security Archive revealed that the United States had begun planning an overthrow of the Castro government as early as March The invasion was conceived during the Eisenhower administration and inherited by President John F.
Kennedy , who reluctantly approved its action but denied the invaders air support in the hopes of concealing a U. Castro, in turn, was able to capitalize on the incident to consolidate his power and further promote his agenda.
On May 1st he announced an end to democratic elections in Cuba and denounced American imperialism. Then at year's end, Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist and announced the Cuban government was adopting communist economic and political policies. On February 7, , the United States imposed a full economic embargo on Cuba. In the wake of the Bay of Pigs incident, Castro intensified his relations with the Soviet Union by accepting further economic and military aid.
In October , his increasing reliance on Soviet support brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Hoping to deter another U. Khrushchev justified the move as a response to U. Jupiter missiles that had been deployed in Turkey. However, an American U-2 reconnaissance plane discovered the base construction before the missiles were installed and President Kennedy responded by demanding the removal of the missiles, with orders for the U.
Navy to search any vessels headed for the island. Over 13 anxious days of secret communications between Khrushchev, Kennedy and their agents, the Soviets agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the United States' public agreement not to invade Cuba.
The Kennedy administration also agreed to secretly remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey. Both leaders saved face and gained some admiration for restraint. Castro, on the other hand, was humiliated: Both superpowers had completely left him out of the negotiations. Furthermore, the United States was able to persuade the Organization of American States to end diplomatic relations with Cuba, in response to Castro's "shameful" actions.
But Castro wasn't shamed for long. In , he merged Cuba's Communist Party with his revolutionary organizations, installing himself as head of the party. Within a few years, he began a campaign of supporting armed struggle against imperialism in Latin American and African countries. In January , Castro founded the Organization for Solidarity with the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America to promote revolution and communism on three continents.
In , he also formed the Latin American Solidarity Organization to foster revolution in select Latin American countries. Other articles claim that this is just the beginning, and that Castro left a trail of illegitimate children across the island.
It is seemingly impossible to know how many women Fidel Castro slept with, or how many children he might have. The best we have to go on is his reputation. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements. To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK". At the time of his death, he was a scientific adviser for the Cuban Council of State and he served as vice president of Cuba's Academy of Sciences.
He headed the island's nuclear programme from to , before it was suspended after the Soviet Union's collapse. His father went on to overthrow the US-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista, in - when his mother's family fled the island and went to Florida.
His parents divorced and "Fidelito" spent some of his early years in the US before his father managed to bring him back to Cuba. Fidelito himself was loyal to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, but was said in recent years to have grown weary - both of living in his father's shadow and having been sidelined from Cuban decision-making on energy resources, said reports.
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