Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

male, 83 years old (la havana, Cuba)
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba. He led the revolution overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista...
Che Guevara

Che Guevara

male, deceased (1967)
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che or just Che was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and...
Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista

male, deceased (1973)
General Ruben Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was the "de facto" military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940, and thus the eminence grise of Cuban p...
Camilo Cienfuegos

Camilo Cienfuegos

male, deceased (1959)
Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán was a Cuban revolutionary born in Calabazar de Sagua. He was active in underground activities against the Cuban P...
Felipe Pérez Roque

Felipe Pérez Roque

male, 44 years old
Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque is the foreign minister of the Republic of Cuba. At his appointment in 1999, he was not only the youngest member of the Cu...
Mariel Boatlift

Mariel Boatlift

female
The Mariel boatlift was a mass movement of Cubans who departed from Cuba's Mariel Harbor to the United States between April 15 and October 31,...
Elizardo Sanchez

Elizardo Sanchez

male
Elizardo Sanchez Santa-Cruz (1944-) is a Cuban human rights campaigner and founder of the "Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation...
Armando Hart

Armando Hart

male, 79 years old
Armando Hart Dávalos is a Cuban politician and a Communist leader. His grandfather was born in Georgia, USA and emigrated to Cuba as a child. B...
Carlos Gutierrez

Carlos Gutierrez

male, 56 years old
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (originally Gutiérrez is the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of t...
Celia Hart

Celia Hart

female
Celia Hart (b. 1962) is a Cuban physicist and writer. Until May 2006, she was a member of the Cuban Communist Party. She is the daughter of two...