Fidel Castro: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Biographies include Tad Szulc, Fidel: A Critical Portrait (1986, reissued 2000); Georgie Anne Geyer, Guerrilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro, 3rd rev. ed. (2001); and Robert E. Quirk, Fidel Castro (1993). Lee Lockwood, Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel, rev. ed. (1990) looks at Cuba through the eyes of an American journalist. Anthony DePalma, The Man Who Invented Castro: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times (2006), relates the story of how American reporter Herbert Matthews shaped early U.S. perceptions of Castro. Tony Perrottet, Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History (2019), provides a portrait of the personalities behind the Cuban Revolution, including Castro
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| New photographs added. | Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 09, 2026 | ||
| Revised media. | Jul 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy - Fidel Castro, Hero or Tyrant? | Feb 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Fidel Castro. | Jan 09, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - On the brink of nuclear war: Fidel Castro's BBC interview. | Jul 26, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Jan 13, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Jun 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Fidel Castro Ruz. | Apr 03, 2023 | ||
| Removed media. | Aug 15, 2022 | ||
| Expanded the discussion of Castro's athletic accomplishments and revised the bibliography. | Jan 28, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 04, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Fidel Castro. | Feb 15, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 20, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies At Age 90. | Mar 07, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 26, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 11, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 03, 2017 | ||
| Added a description of 21st century scholarship that made clear that Cuba acted independently in its military involvement in Africa in the 1970s ands '80s and not as a Soviet surrogate. |
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Dec 22, 2016 | |
| Add new Web site: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - Biography of Fidel Castro. | Dec 08, 2016 | ||
| He died in 2016. | Nov 26, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Alpha History - Biography of Fidel Castro. | Sep 07, 2016 | ||
| Noted Fidel Castro's response to U.S. Pres. Barack Obama's visit to Cuba in 2016. | Sep 01, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 19, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Fidel Castro. | Oct 31, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Fidel Castro. | Dec 02, 2013 | ||
| Revised discussion of Castro's parents. | Oct 31, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Fulgencio Batista. | Oct 24, 2013 | ||
| Added "Alejandro" to the title variant. |
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May 03, 2013 | |
| In the discussion of his surgery in 2006, added that it was for a "serious intestinal illness." |
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Mar 12, 2013 | |
| Changed number of half-siblings from "two" to "five." |
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Feb 13, 2013 | |
| Changed "Mariá Argota" to "María Argota" and "one of these five children" to "one of these seven children." |
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Jan 28, 2013 | |
| Added name of Angel Castro's first wife, María Argota, and changed the number of children of Lina Ruz González from five to seven. |
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Jan 25, 2013 | |
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Fidel Castro. | Dec 21, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Fidel Castro. | May 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Fidel Castro. | May 13, 2011 | ||
| Fidel stepped down as head of the Communist Party of Cuba and was replaced by Raúl. | Apr 20, 2011 | ||
| Added mentions of Castro's return to public, his comments regarding the shortcomings of the Cuban model, and the release of the first volume of his memoirs. | Sep 15, 2010 | ||
| Newsreel footage of Fidel Castro added. | Apr 21, 2010 | ||
| Fidel Castro aided Hugo Chávez in the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, a socialist initiative, in 2004. | Jul 02, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 30, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 19, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Fidel Castro. | Sep 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Tripod - The Cuban Communist Party's Anti-Castro Activities. | Sep 16, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Fidel Castro. | Sep 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 13, 2007 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Aug 13, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Fidel Castro. | Feb 14, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Fidel Castro. | Jun 07, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | May 17, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 10, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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