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Editor\u2019s note: This story was originally published on June 26, 2024.<\/i><\/p>\n

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives.<\/i><\/p>\n

The front page of the Deseret News on July 26, 1953, offered some hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuns silent, death finally halts on battle-weary Korean front,\u201d read the top of the page headline, with no fewer than six stories devoted to hope for a peaceful future in the world.<\/p>\n

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But on that same newspaper page, a wire story told how a young Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba.<\/p>\n

The Day of Revolution, as it is called in Cuba today, took six years to complete before the 32-year-old Castro toppled the anti-Communist Batista government and took control.<\/p>\n

In the island country less than 100 miles from the coast of the U.S. coast, the 26th of July is celebrated as a day of liberation. Whether Cubans have enjoyed a life of liberty is debatable.<\/p>\n

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According to his obituary, Castro battled with 10 U.S. presidents during his tenure and survived perhaps hundreds of assassination attempts. He died in 2016 at age 90, defiant to the end.<\/p>\n

Here are some stories from Deseret News archives that try to put Castro\u2019s influence on the world and his nation in perspective:<\/p>\n

\u201cCuba hails 50th anniversary of revolution\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFidel Castro, who defied US for 50 years, dies at 90 in Cuba\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week in history: The Batista government falls in Cuba\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCastro\u2019s Cuba crumbling as country confronts calamitous change\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFidel Castro clung to socialism, mentored new leftists\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAdulation of Fidel Castro runs deepest in rural eastern Cuba\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFidel Castro\u2019s death should be celebrated, Utahns say\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cElian Gonzalez returns to public eye to praise Fidel Castro\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe house that exile built\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCubans looking beyond Castro\u201d<\/p>\n

Early in his regime, Castro and Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev faced off against U.S. President John F. Kennedy in a series of confrontations. Here are some stories and analysis of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe man who saw too much\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOpinion: 60 years later, we can still learn from the Cuban missile crisis\u201d<\/p>\n

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