Fidel Castro, was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as president from 1976 to 2008. The following are some facts about former Cuban leader Fidel Castro:■ Fidel Castro led Cuba for five decades and was the world’s third longest-serving head of state, after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and the King of Thailand. Stooped and walking with difficulty, Castro was seen in public twice in 2012 and twice in 2013. His eldest son Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, who is the image of his father and is known as Fidelito, is a Soviet-trained nuclear scientist born in 1949 out of his brief marriage to Mirta Diaz-Balart. Read | ‘A revolution is not a bed of roses’: Top quotes by Fidel Castro

Source: Hindustan Times November 26, 2016 05:59 UTC