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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. But then in 1954 they got divorced. In 1952, after Fulgencio Bastista y Zald'var seized control of the Cuban government, Castro became the leader. He took control of Cuba in 1959 and established a Communist dictatorship. Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Castro in 1961, now known as The Bay of Pigs. In the early 1960s Castro openly embraced communism and formed close ties with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), relying increasingly on Soviet economic and military aid. In 1953 he was jailed for havi