RightChannel Pondicherry's video: Socialism Fidel Castro - UNIVERSAL REVOLUTIONIST

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz August 13, 1926 - November 25, 2016 (aged 90) “A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro A militant in the struggle for revolution.,supporter of revolutionary principles.“ Fidel Castro, who has died at the age of 90, was one of the more extraordinary political figures of the 20th century” writes Richard Gott in a Guardian obituary. “After leading a successful revolution on a Caribbean island in 1959, he became a player on the global stage, dealing on equal terms with successive leaders of the two nuclear superpowers during the cold war. “A charismatic figure from the developing world, his influence was felt far beyond the shores of Cuba. Known as Fidel to friends and enemies alike, his life story is inevitably that of his people and their revolution. Even in old age, he still exercised a magnetic attraction wherever he went, his audience as fascinated by the dinosaur from history as they had once been by the revolutionary firebrand of earlier times.” a massive figure in the history of the whole planet, ever since the revolution in 1959. There are stories of his heroism while living in Mexico in exile and then the boat to Cuba, the march to Havana and the revolution in 1959. He managed to bring good quality health services to all the people of Cuba, good quality education to all the people of Cuba and, of course, he had a foreign policy which was global, but particularly important in southern Africa in supporting Angola against the apartheid regime.