A man I know once spent three days interviewing Fidel Castro. This was in 1964. “It was like washing your hands in Niagara” was how he describes the experience. Watching “The Fidel Castro ...

Castro, who rarely wakes before 10 a.m. or 11 a.m., is happy not to wear a suit and confessed that the main reason he has a beard is so he did not have to shave every day.

With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people. At times, he claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month and live… ...

The communist adversary for 10 U.S. presidents, Castro wore his trademark beard and army fatigues for nearly five decades, giving fiery speeches against what he called the evils of imperialism.

Fidel Castro, Cuban politician and ... The CIA even considered a plan to dust Castro’s shoes with thallium salts, which would make his beard fall out, undermining his image, McClatchy reported ...

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the charismatic icon of leftist revolution who thrust his Caribbean nation onto the world stage by provoking Cold War confrontation and defying U.S. policy ...

The Democratic presidential candidates praised left-wing policies to the extent they sounded like the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, according to Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.

Fidel Castro had a large family, and was one of six siblings. He married twice and had nine children. He kept his trademark fatigues and beard to the end, though after handing over power he also ...

Fidel Castro: Played by James Franco, obvi. He has the scraggly beard. And, as we’ve already established, his ancestors hail from the same 4 million-square-mile continent as Castro’s.

Fidel Castro burst on the world scene in 1959, spawning the very image of a revolutionary with his scruffy beard, rifle and cigar, ruling Cuba for a half-century while rankling 11 U.S. presidents ...