Fidel Castro: The young revolutionary stands in an unknown location in Cuba in 1957. (AP Photo, File) Fidel Castro: The young revolutionary stands in an unknown location in Cuba in 1957. (AP Photo, File)Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 US presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90. With a shaking voice, his younger brother, Raul Castro, announced on state television that his brother died at 10:29 pm on Friday night. In Pictures | Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary whose rallying cry became ‘socialism or death’, dies at 90On April 16 of that year, Castro declared his revolution to be socialist, and the next day, about 1,400 Cuban exiles stormed the beach at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s south coast.

Source: Indian Express November 26, 2016 06:19 UTC