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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.
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 (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.
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.
When Ángel Castro y Argiz was born on 5 December 1875, in Lugo, Galicia, Spain, his father, Manuel de Castro y Núñez, was 22 and his mother, Antonia Argiz y Fernández, was 18. He married María Luisa Argota y Reyes on 25 March 1911, in Birán, Holguín, Cuba.
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- María Luisa Argota y Reyes, Lina Ruz Gonzalez
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.
Biography. 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 .
