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Fidal castro

He was born into a wealthy family and acquired a law degree. While studying at Havana University, he began his political career and became a recognized figure in Cuban politics.His political career continued with [|nationalist] critiques of [|Fulgencio Batista], and of the [|United States]' political and corporate influence in Cuba. He gained an ardent, but limited, following and also drew the attention of the authorities. He eventually led the failed 1953 attack on the [|Moncada Barracks], after which he was captured, tried, incarcerated, and later released. He then traveled to Mexico to organize and train for an assault on Batista's Cuba. He and his fellow revolutionaries left Mexico for the East of Cuba in December 1956. After the loss at the [|Battle of Santa Clara], expecting betrayal by his own army and having lost all backup from the previously supportive US government, Batista (accompanied by [|president-elect] [|Andrés Rivero Agüero]) boarded a plane and fled to the [|Dominican Republic] in the early hours of January 1, 1959. Accompanying Batista into exile was an amassed fortune of more than $ 300,000,000 that he acquired through "graft and payoffs."[|[] Batista left behind a junta headed by Gen. Eulogio Cantillo, recently the commander in Oriente province, the center of the Castro revolt. The junta immediately selected Dr. [|Carlos Piedra], the oldest judge of the [|Supreme Court], as provisional President of Cuba as specified in the Constitution of 1940. Castro refused to accept the selection of Justice Piedra as provisional President and the Supreme Court refused to administer the oath of office to the Justice.[ The rebel forces of Fidel Castro moved swiftly to seize power throughout the island.[At the age of 32, Castro had successfully masterminded a classic guerrilla campaign from his headquarters in the Sierra Maestra and ousted Batista.
 * fidel castro was the leader of cuba
 * his brother raul in now in charge
 * cuba was a communist country