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.
August 13, 1926. near Biran, Cuba. Fidel Castro, in full Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926, near BirÃ¡n, Cuba) political leader of Cuba (1959â2008) who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.