Fidel

American  

[fi-del, fee-thel] / fɪˈdɛl, fiˈðɛl /

noun

1. a male given name.

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Example Sentences

The vessel, dubbed "Granma 2.0" after the boat in which Fidel Castro returned to Cuba to launch the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s, delivered solar panels, medicines, baby formula, bicycles and food.

From BBC

As they approached the port and its colonial-era fortification, activists stood on the cabin roof of the boat -- symbolically renamed "Granma 2.0" as a tribute to the yacht used by Fidel Castro's guerrilla fighters to launch their revolution in 1956.

From Barron's

The author emphasizes that by the 1950s, approximately 90% of Cuba’s mines were owned by U.S. companies, demonstrating a longstanding pattern of American economic domination that predated the rise of Fidel Castro and communism.

From Los Angeles Times

From the first days of his rule, the Fidel Castro referred to Cubans who went into exile as “gusanos,” Spanish for worms.

From The Wall Street Journal

Underscoring the gravity of the moment, Díaz-Canel stressed that the talks were directed by him and “the historic leader of our revolution,” Raúl Castro, the nonagenarian younger brother of Fidel, who died in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times