Pact of Caracas

APPARTS Week 30 Matt Barnett This document is an excerpt from a speech Fidel Castro made in 1953. Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary who, with the help of Ch? Guevara, overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista to create a Communist government. In the 1950s and 1960s, communism was spreading around the world. China, Vietnam, North Korea, and Russia were all world powers that had experienced revolutions. Cuba, through trials and tribulations, was about to experience a shift in its own right. This speech was given to a courtroom audience in his defense of his actions. Before he became the President of Cuba, Castro failed to overthrow Batista and was jailed for two years.