Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba by criticizing the corrupt government of Fulgencio Batista and promising economic and social reforms. He launched an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in 1953 but gained support while exiled in Mexico. Castro returned to Cuba in 1956 and eventually overthrew Batista in 1959. However, Castro then transformed Cuba into a communist country, alienating the U.S. and losing domestic support over time due to economic struggles under his authoritarian rule and close relationship with the Soviet Union. The Cuban Missile Crisis further eroded popular backing for Castro as it put Cuban citizens directly in harm's way against U.S. opposition to communism.

1. Fidel Castro 20th Century Dictator Lacey Pilgrim Humanities 30-1 Mr. Kabachia

3. The Ortodoxo Party began to shed light on the corruption of the government to the citizens of Cuba. When the citizens heard this, many of the people began to support them because they wanted to be freed from this corruption, and to many it seemed that Fidel Castro has the solutions.

4. Castro was also a major candidate for supporting third world countries against imperialism.

6. When America, one of the world’s superpowers, accused Cuba to be a communist country when America disagrees with the idea of a communism, the citizens of Cuba began to question Castro. They began to seem unsure about his ideologies, and this greatly affected the citizens perspectives on Castro.

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