The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Descriptionformer First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
AliasesFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
BornAugust 13, 1926
CountryCuba
ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer; Soldier
AwardsHero Of The Soviet Union; Order Of Lenin; Lenin Peace Prize; Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years Of Victory In The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Order Of The October Revolution; Order Of The White Lion; Order Of The Star Of Romania; Order Of Georgi Dimitrov; Order Of Polonia Restituta; Order Of Jamaica; Jamaican Order Of Merit; Order Of Karl Marx; Order Of The Aztec Eagle; Order Of Klement Gottwald; Order Of Merit Of Duarte, Sanchez And Mella; Order Of Good Hope; National Order Of Mali; Order Of Prince Yaroslav The Wise; Order Of The Liberator; Order Of The Crown Of The Realm; Order Of The Quetzal; Order Of The Companions Of O. R. Tambo; Order Of Merit (Ukraine); Star Of People's Friendship; Confucius Peace Prize; Al-Gaddafi International Prize For Human Rights
