ABSTRACT
Born: August 13, 1926 or 1927; near Biran, Cuba Areas of Achievement: Government and politics Contribution: Castro led a successful revolutionary
struggle against the Cuban dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar in the late 1950's. The revolutionary leader subsequently implemented Latin America's third social revolution of the twentieth century and transformed Cuba into the first communist state of the hemisphere in defiance of the United States.
