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Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (5 December 1875 – 21 October 1956) was a Spanish-born Cuban farmer and businessman who was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel, Raúl and Ramón Castro.
Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (Láncara, Lugo, España, 4 de diciembre de 1875-Birán, Cueto, provincia de Holguín, Cuba, 21 de octubre de 1956) fue un inmigrante español en Cuba, padre de los dirigentes revolucionarios Fidel Castro y Raúl Castro, expresidentes de la República de Cuba.
Don Angel Castro Argis died on October 21st (by then his sons Fidel and Raúl were in Mexico getting ready to come to Cuba to fight against the Cuban president Fulgencio Batista). His last wish was to be buried in Birán, place that he considered his second homeland.
Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz (5 December 1875 – 21 October 1956) was a Spanish-born Cuban farmer and businessman who was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel, Raúl and Ramón Castro.
He was conceived through an extramarital affair between his father, Ángel Castro y Argiz, a well-to-do sugarcane farmer hailing from Spain, and Ángel’s wife’s servant Lina Ruz Gonzáles; the pair wed when Fidel was a teenager.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13th 1926 in Birán, then Cuban province of Oriente. His father Ángel Castro Argiz, the son of poor farmers from Galicia was a landholder and sugar cane tenant. His mother Lina Ruz Gonzalez came from a peasant’s family in Pinar del Rio province.
Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raúl Castro. Ángel Castro y Argiz was born on December 05, 1875 in Láncara, Lugo, Galicia, España. His parents were Manuel Castro Núñez and Antonia Argiz Fernández. He married María Argota Reyes on March 25, 1911. Together they had 5 children:
