Fidel Castro — "I am not interested in power nor do I envisage assuming it at any time. All that…"
I am not interested in power nor do I envisage assuming it at any time. All that I will do is to make sure that the sacrifices of so many compatriots should not be in vain, whatever the future may hold in store for me.
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Cuban revolutionary who overthrew Batista in 1959 and led Cuba's communist state for 49 years through 11 US presidents.
Closely associated with
Che Guevara (his revolutionary partner) and Hugo Chávez (Latin American successor in Venezuela).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Ronald Reagan, Cold War US president — Reagan's hardline anti-communism and economic-warfare strategy made Cuba a test case for the entire late-Cold-War US foreign policy — the institutional power Castro's island state spent 49 years resisting.