The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.

The plane was sent back to the United States, for a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable recruit to the revolution.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

Fidel Castro was a friend of the Marxist-Leninist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, whose regime killed hundreds of thousands during the Ethiopian Red Terror of the late 1970s and who was later convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Together with Fidel Castro and other Communist leaders, Gaddafi supported Soviet protege Haile Mariam Mengistu, the military ruler of Ethiopia, who was later convicted for a genocide that killed thousands.

It is reported that Edson de Castro, who had been a key member of the design team, left to form Data General when his design for a 16-bit successor to the PDP-8 was rejected in favour of the PDP-11 ; the " PDP-X " did not resemble the Data General Nova, although that is a common myth.

The chief engineer who designed the initial version of the PDP-8 was Edson de Castro, who later founded Data General.

* September 28 – Fidel Castro announces that anyone who wants to can emigrate to the United States.

A keen internationalist, Castro introduced Cuban medical brigades who worked throughout the developing world, and aided foreign revolutionary socialist groups in the hope of toppling world capitalism, thereby involving Cuba in the Yom Kippur War, Angolan Civil War and the Ogaden War.

Amidst failing health, in 2006 Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice-President Raúl Castro, who then became President when Fidel stepped down in 2008.

* AMTRUNK: A CIA plan by New York Times journalist Tad Szulc initiated in February 1963, also called the " Leonardo Plan ," that was " an attempt to find disgruntled military officials in Cuba who might be willing to recruit higher military officials in a plot to overthrow Castro ", as well as to overthrow the Cuban government " by means of a conspiracy among high-level ... leaders of the government culminating in a coup d ' etat ".

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

Jerónimo ( or Gerónimo ) de Zurita y Castro ( 1512 – 3 November 1580 ) was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth century who founded the modern tradition of historical scholarship in Spain.

On MinnPost. com, Ventura's agent, Steve Schwartz, describes the book thus: " is revealing why he left politics and discussing the disastrous war in Iraq, why he sees our two-party system as corrupt, and what Fidel Castro told him about who was really behind the assassination of President Kennedy.

* In 1524, the Jews of Cairo were delivered on the 28th of Adar from the plot of Ahmad Pasha who sought revenge against the Jewish minter Abraham de Castro who had informed Selim II of Ahmad's plan to cede from the Ottoman Empire.

Later in his reign, he formed a liaison with Urraca Fernández, widow of count Rodrigo Martínez and daughter of Fernando Garcés de Hita, an apparent grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre, having a daughter Stephanie the Unfortunate ( 1148 – 1180 ), who was killed by her jealous husband, Fernán Ruiz de Castro.

From 1910 to 1920, the Castro was known as " Little Scandinavia " because of the number of people of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish ancestry who lived there.

By 1973, Harvey Milk, who would become the most famous resident of the neighborhood, opened a camera store, Castro Camera, and began political involvement as a gay activist, further contributing to the notion of the Castro as a gay destination.

Portuondo and other Bacardí family members initially supported the Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro and the broader M-26-7 movement: Bosch personally donated tens of thousands of dollars to the movement, and acted as an intermediary between the revolutionaries and the CIA to assuage the latter's concerns.

Although Castro initially sought aid from the US, he was rebuffed and later turned to the Soviet Union.

In turn, when Fulgencio Batista was in power, Trujillo initially supported anti-Batista supporters of Prio in Oriente in 1955, however weapons Trujillo sent were soon inherited by Castro's insurgents when Prio allied with Castro.

Tactically, she was initially invaluable to Guevara's guerrillas because she used radio equipment hidden in a compartment behind the wall in her apartment to not only send coded messages to Fidel Castro in Havana ; but to Guevara's guerrillas in the field by posing as a radiohost giving encoded relationship advice to fictitious lovelorn couples.

Although Castro initially sought aid from the US, he was rebuffed and later turned to the Soviet Union.

Ferrie initially supported Fidel Castro's campaign against Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, but by mid-1959 became convinced that Castro was a communist.

It was initially a working-class Irish neighborhood until a combination of factory jobs loss and the migration of homosexuals into The Castro radically changed the neighborhood in the 1960s.

Although Padilla initially supported the revolution led by Fidel Castro, by the late 1960s he began to criticize it openly.

Even if the operation had initially succeeded, the idea that this paramilitary battalion would have melted into the jungles and mountains to spawn a general uprising against Castro is fatuous.

It would be the most severe reprisal, short of declared war, that the United States could invoke against Castro.

Soon after Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state, Costa Rican President Mario Echandi ended diplomatic relations on 10 September 1961 with the island through Executive Decree Number 2, in compliance with sanctions placed on Cuba by the Organization of American States.

In addition, the United States was skeptical of even a hint of left-leaning politics in the Caribbean after Fidel Castro openly declared himself a Communist.

The parliamentarians, meeting secretly on May 4, 1915 in the Palácio da Mitra, declared Arriaga and Pimenta de Castro outside the law, their acts undemocratic and essentially void.

The junta officially declared that he committed suicide with a rifle given to him by Fidel Castro, two doctors from the infirmary of La Moneda stated that they witnessed the suicide, and an autopsy labelled Allende's death a suicide.

Robertson, Mage and Wohlforth opposed what they considered to be an uncritical embrace of Fidel Castro by the SWP leadership, which declared Cuba to be a workers state on a par with the early USSR.

Later, when Fidel Castro learned of her demise, he declared " Tania the guerrilla " a hero of the Cuban Revolution.

Filming was done in Cuba, and ended just the day before Fidel Castro entered Havana and declared the victory of the revolution.

Two years after his 1959 speech at the Havana Labor Rally, Castro declared that the age of racism and discrimination was over.

In a speech given at the Confederation of Cuban Workers in observance of May Day, Castro declared that the “ just laws of the revolution ended unemployment, put an end to villages without hospitals and schools, enacted laws which ended discrimination, control by monopolies, humiliation, and the suffering of the people .” Although inspiring, many would consider the claim to be premature .”

Raúl Castro, then Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, declared in April 1966 that " in the first group of fellows who took part in UMAP's were some youngsters who didn't have a proper behavior in life ; these young fellows, partly due to their education and the influence they got from the environment, had taken it the wrong way in the front of society and consequently have been incorporated to UMAP's in order to help them to find the right path so as to fully assimilate to society ".

It is also said that Fidel Castro declared UMAP to be a travesty of justice.

The PPC won eight seats, the Puwersa ng Masa won three, and Noli de Castro as an independent ; PPC's Ralph Recto edged out Puwersa ng Masa's Gregorio Honasan for the twelfth place and Honasan was declared to serve Guingona's remaining term.

Reacting to this sudden exodus, Castro stated, " Anyone who wants to leave Cuba can do so " and declared that those who were leaving the country were the escoria ( scum ).

On 1 July 1988, the Holy See declared Castro Mayer by name to have been automatically excommunicated for participating on 30 June 1988 in the consecration, together with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, of four bishops against papal mandate ( see Ecône Consecrations ).

* In Nercón, a village which was incorporated into Castro in 2007, there is another sightworthy church which was declared World Heritage by the UNESCO: Nuestra Senora de Gracia was built 1886-90 of Nothofagus dombeyi wood, and a well-kept garden can be seen in front of it.

But only three months later, the government of Fidel Castro declared him persona non grata.