Fidel Castro, revolutionary leader of Cuba, was born on August 13, 1926 in Mayari, Cuba. As a boy, he lived on his family's sugar plantation where his father, Angel Castro, processed sugar on his fields and transported them to other parts of Cuba. Fidel Castro worked on the sugar plantation, until he was six, when he convinced his parents to let him go to school. <Tab/>At first, Castro attended local public school …showed first 75 words of 666 total…

…showed last 75 words of 666 total…there was increasing tension between Cuba and the United States. When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, Castro decided to commit to peace and justice. This visit from the Pope caused different views from the people of Cuba. Some thought that his aspects had changed and he wanted peace, while others believed that he was a strategist and that he benefited from the Pope's disapproval of the actions of the United States on Cuba.