Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

Fidel Castro

Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as…