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To: walrus954
Dr. Castro? What kind of rag is this? Where, pray tell, did Castro earn his PhD?

A JD, rather than a PhD, or whatever a Doctorate in Jurisprudence works out to in Spanish. Per following Bio:

Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, on his family's sugar plantation near Biran, Oriente province, Cuba. His father, originally an immigrant laborer from Galicia, Spain, became owner of a 23,000-acre plantation.

As a boy, Castro worked in the family's sugar cane fields and, at 6 years old, convinced his parents to send him to school. He attended two Jesuit institutions, the Colegio Lasalle and the Colegio Dolores, both in Santiago. In 1942 he entered the Colegio Belen, a Jesuit preparatory school in Havana. He was voted the school's best athlete in 1944.

In 1945 Castro attended the University of Havana's Faculty of Law, and having earned a law degree, went into practice in 1950 in Havana with two partners. As a lawyer he devoted himself to helping the poor.

Castro intended to campaign for a parliamentary seat in the election of 1952 but General Fulgencio Batista overthrew the government of President Carlos Prio Socarras in a coup d'etat and canceled the election. Castro went to court and charged the dictator with violating the constitution. The court rejected Castro's petition. With no legal recourse left, Castro organized an armed attack by 165 men on the Moncada Barracks in Oriente province on July 26, 1953. That attack and the one on Bayamo garrison failed completely. Half the attackers were killed; Castro and his brother Raul were taken prisoner. They were released in a general amnesty on May 15, 1955.

11 posted on 12/01/2003 4:48:01 PM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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To: archy
I have read that Castro went on to appropriate his fathers 23,000 acre plantation after the revolution for the "state".

To prove that he is a Maximo commie culero.

17 posted on 12/01/2003 5:30:15 PM PST by gitmogrunt
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