who was the leader of the cuban revolution?
Fidel Castro: Cuba's revolutionary leader. Comandante Fidel. Fidel Castro survived more than 600 CIA assassination plots to become the longest serving non-royal leader of the 20th Century. As leader of the Cuban Revolution, he created a communist state in Americaâs backyard that still survives today. To his enemies he was a ruthless autocrat whose close links to the Soviet Union brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.