In a news report aired by WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Rodgers was shown ignoring the autograph request of Jan Cavanaugh, a cancer patient wearing pink Packers gear, at the airport as the team was preparing to leave for Atlanta.
Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government, and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961.
Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. BY: Ngoc Bich Nguyen. FIDEL CASTRO. Fidel Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 on a farm in Mayari, Province of Oriente. He attended good Catholic schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana. In 1945 he enrolled in University of Havana. He graduated with a law degree in 1950. Two years before he graduated, in 1948 Fidel Castro married Mirta Diaz-Balart.