On 19 Feb 2008 Castro announced he was stepping down as Cuba's president, he intends to continue to advice Cuba's political leaders.
Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba
No. He is widely seen as a stop gap leader who will push a continuance of Fidel Castro's policies.
the us wanted to stop cuba from becoming communist so they trained cuban exiles to invade
When JFK began the embargo of Cuba he was dealing with a situation of the USSR placing missiles on Cuba. This is 90 miles from the American coast, so his purpose was to stop the Russian ships from coming and going out of Cuba. Literally American Navy ships surrounded Cuba until the missiles were removed. The relationship with Castro didn't improve so the embargo stayed in place. In the post war WW2 philosophy of containing communist aggression Cuba was included in the list of communist countries. Has been communist for 60 years ever since Castro overthrew the government.
Cuba is not financially supporting Assad, the "support" is ideological. Cuba is simply choosing to stand with Iran and Assad because doing so puts them in an Anti-American coalition and Cuba harbors antipathy towards the US because of the US support for Batista, attempts to overthrow the Castro government, and the embargo which was only recently dropped. Since Cuba's support is non-monetary, it makes little sense to push this issue in negotiations, primarily since the US and Cuba have many larger issues that they need to deal with as regards normalizing relations.
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The goal of the 1961 invasion of Cuba, known as the Bay of Pigs incident or invasion, was to oust the socialist Cuban government led by Fidel Castro. Despite being trained and assisted by U.S. military and CIA personnel, the Cuban exiles who invaded were repulsed and their takeover bid failed.
Cuba provided a perfect rest stop for the spanish expeditions.
He had a blockade of cuba made
In 1945 when he comitted suicide
In the story he dies at the end.
He tried but Cuba wanted to stay a communist country.