Aaron Rodgers of the Packers, who will start at quarterback in the upcoming Super Bowl, just switched to a helmet he thinks offers superior protection. Rodgers says the helmet prevented a concussion when he took a brutal blow to the head from Julius Peppers of the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship Game.
It seemed that the American people didnât want the US government propping up dictators or leading coups anymore. With Matthewsâ praise Castro became a cause celebre. Eventually, the Eisenhower administration withdrew its support for Batista and that allowed Castro to come to power on January 1st 1959.
Fidel Castro: Early Years. Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in BirÃ¡n, a small town in eastern Cuba. His father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to the island during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898); his mother was a domestic servant for his fatherâs family who bore him out of wedlock.