Fidel Castro's Youth

Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, a small town in eastern Cuba. His father came to the island during the Roosevelt's Cuban War of Independence. Soon after he became an established and wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer. Castro attended a couple of Jesuit school and excelled at baseball. Later he enrolled as a law student to the University of Havana. College was where Castro's interest in politics stemmed; he joined the anti-corruption Orthodox Party. He graduated, and three years later Castro led around 120 men in an attack on Cuba, he failed and was sent to prison.  Castro was released 2 years later and plotted other ideas to overthrow the government. Finally, 9 years after graduating college, Castro took over Cuba and became the new Prime minister until 2008.