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   Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary-turned-dictator – obituary   
      
   26 November 2016 • 12:56pm   
      
   Fidel Castro, who has died aged 90, became a revolutionary hero when   
   he overthrew the corrupt and brutal dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista   
   in 1959; during nearly five decades in power, however, his triumph   
   increasingly appeared as a disaster — for Cuba; for the world; even,   
   ultimately, for himself.   
      
   Had Castro died in 1959, his reputation as a guerrilla commander would   
   have retained a romantic allure equal to Garibaldi’s. With a handful   
   of men, he had hazarded his life in a desperate venture against a vile   
   regime, and through a combination of courage, shrewdness and luck   
   brought off the gigantic gamble. He possessed immense panache and   
   charm; his energy was inexhaustible; his ambition, he declared, only   
   to serve his country.   
      
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/11/26/fidel-castro-re   
   olutionary-hero-obituary/   
      
      
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