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I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.

Fidel Castro

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Fidel Castro
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: August 13
Died: 2016
Died: November 25
Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
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