Happy 85th Birthday Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro marks his 85th birthday on Saturday the 13th August and it will be celebrated in Cuba and the rest of the world.

Cuba: The leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel castro’s 85th birthday will be celebrated at parties in Cuba.

Cuba began to celebrate the birthday its spritual leaders birtfday on Tuesday, as parties kicked off birthday celebrations for revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, who will turn 85 years old this weekend.

It is though still unclear whether the guest of honor would appear.

Cuba celebrates Fidel Castro birthday

The parties are set to peak late Friday into Saturday – Castro’s actual birthday – when a “Song of Loyalty” gala will be dedicated to the former leader at the Karl Marx Theater, Cuba’s largest with a capacity of 5,000.

On Tuesday, the festivities began with a concert in Havana featuring a number of Latin American artists from Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, as well as the Cuban duo Buena Fe and Vicente Feliu. Most of the events have been organized by the Guayasamin Foundation, named for the Ecuadoran painter Oswaldo Guayasamin, who is a close friend of Castro

Seranade to Fidelity : Fidel Castro Birthday

A music concert by 22 artists from nine countries will take place in the eve of Fidel Castro’s 85th birthday, next Saturday, August 13. CA concert entitled “Serenade to Fidelity” will celebrate Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro’s 85th birthday at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater on the eve of August 13. The concert is sponsored by the Oswaldo Guayasamín Foundation to celebrate Castro’s birthday

Concert coordinator and head of international affairs of the Guayasamin Foundation, Alfredo Vera, said that the cultural gala will be held at the Havana-based Karl Marx theater.

Painter Oswaldo Guayasamin, a close friend of Fidel Castro, celebrated the Cuban leader’s 70th birthday and after he died in 1999, his foundation marked Fidel’s 80th birthday in Havana while he was hospitalized.

The concert coincides with the stay in Havana of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who is taking his second chemotherapy session, after he was removed a cancerous tumor.

Now that Fidel Castro is enjoying good health and is taking care of fellow Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, nationalTurk consider it the right moment to wish him a happy birthday.

Outstanding singers such as Cuban Omara Portuondo, Ecuadorian Pablo Nuevo, Venezuelan Cecilia Todd, Argentineans Liliana Herrero and Raly Barrionuevo, Paraguayan Ricardo Flecha and Uruguayan Daniel Viglieti will dedicate Fidel Castro their songs.

Celebrations for Fidel Castro´s 85th birthday began Tuesday evening with a concert by several Latin American artists, along with exhibits of paintings, photos and ballet performances.

Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution

He came to power on New Year’s Day 1959 when his guerrilla forces swept down from the eastern Sierra Maestra mountains to topple U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista.

As Cuba’s president, he outlasted nine U.S. presidents and five decades of U.S. hostility, but in July 2006 he underwent emergency intestinal surgery and suffered complications and left presidency to his brother Raul Castro.

 

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