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True or false
Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba following a revolution in 1959

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False, he became the 16th prime minister of Cuba in 1956.
He became leader in 1976.
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It's true.

Castro took power in 1959, after President Batista's government was overthrown during the Cuban Revolution.
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