Who was Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro?
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, who served as the country's President and Prime Minister from 1959 to 2008, was the longest-serving non-royal head of state. Castro had planned the revolution along with Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara to overthrow the US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro had claimed that USA's Central Intelligence Agency had tried to assassinate him 638 times.