Rumblings on social media last week suggested, once again, that the former Cuban dictator had died, but they were debunked again. The actual dead man is Fidel Castro Odinga – the son of a Kenyan opposition leader from Nairobi.
Whether or not you agreed with Fidel Castro's politics, he had an impressive rise to power. Castro was responsible for establishing the first Communist state in the western hemisphere, beginning what would become a nearly five-decade reign as leader of Cuba, not far from US shores.
Castro was born Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz on August 13, 1926 in the small eastern village of Biran. His father was a wealthy sugarcane farmer; his mother worked as a maid to his father’s first wife.
Fidel’s father reportedly would not recognize him as his own son until Fidel turned 17, when his father ditched his first wife and married the maid.
