Fidelista

[fee-de-lee-stuh, fee-the-lees-tah]

noun

plural

Fidelistas 

1. Fidelist.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fidelista¹

1955–60; < Spanish fidelista, equivalent to Fidel ( Castro ) + -ista -ist

Example Sentences

With her mahogany-hued skin, Cary was a beneficiary of the revolution’s much-improved race relations; she had been a stalwart Fidelista, a Russian-trained engineer who rose to a vice minister’s post.

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“I’m a Fidelista, entirely in favor of the revolution,” declared Meraldo Nojas Sutil, 78, who moved to Hershey when he was 11 and worked in the plant during the 1960s and ’70s.

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"Everyone here is sad. Everyone is a Fidelista," said Anaida Gonzales, a retired nursing professor in central Camaguey province.

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“We Cubans are Fidelista even if we are not Communist.”

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The airport worker is a devoted Fidelista who still drapes a revolutionary flag from his apartment window on national day.

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