Fidel Castro: El Lider Maximo: A Life in Pictures Edited by Valeria Manferto De Fabianis

From 1959 to 2006: 48 years of power. Fidel Castro Ruz's leadership has been one of the longest in the contemporary era, surpassed only by those of Francis Joseph, who for 68 years ruled Austria and the Habsburg Empire, and Victoria, who for 64 years ruled Britain and the British Empire. Castro, who was born on 13 August 1936, studied under the Jesuits, became a young defense lawyer for the ostracized, and a revolutionary by profession (his well-known maxim was: "The revolutionary process is intrinsically the best health program possible"). He gained power on 8 January 1959 after three years of bloody insurrectional warfare against the dictator Fulgencio Batista. This volume is dedicated to one of the leading personalities of the contemporary political world. It is an illustrated biography; rich with photos and documents that recount the myth of a leader and gives evidence on both the light and the shadows of a historical epoch in which Castro has been the indisputable... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Fidel Castro: El Lider Maximo: A Life in Pictures (Edited by Valeria Manferto De Fabianis)