Life and Legacy of Fidel Castro

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Michael Krasny

Nov 28, 2016 at

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Cuban Prime Secretary of the Cuban Communist party and President of the State Council Fidel Castro addresses crowd in the 1970s in Havana, Cuba. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Born in 1926, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz died on Friday evening at the age of 90. We’ll discuss the life and legacy of the man who ruled Cuba for almost 50 years, through ten U.S. presidents, from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush.

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