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.
Cuban economic problems got worse in the 1990's and finally Castro approved limited economic reforms that legalized some free enterprise. THE CUBAN REVOLUTION. Fidel Castro was a young lawyer in Cuba when General Fulgencio Batista overthrew the president of Cuba. This angered him very much, therefore, for the next seven years he tried to overthrow the Batista's government.