In a news report aired by WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Rodgers was shown ignoring the autograph request of Jan Cavanaugh, a cancer patient wearing pink Packers gear, at the airport as the team was preparing to leave for Atlanta.
Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government, and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961.
On January 8th 1959, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and the guerillas attacked Havana (capital of Cuba) Overthrew the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Cuba and Soviet Russia. Cuba became a communist country through the revolution that occurred on January 8th, 1959 led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Cuba and Communism: Present Day. Cuba is still a communist country today. Fidel Castro resigned as president in 2008, and his brother Raul Castro became president.