Saddam Hussein Fidel Castro Compare and Contrast Jacqueline Alvarez World History Honors Pd. 8 -Born in:Oriente Province, Cuba August 13, 1926 -Fidel Castro was the third of six children -Educated in private Jesuit boarding school -He attended El Colegio de Belen -After his graduation in late 1945, Castro entered law school at the University of Havana - -April 28, 1937 in Tikrit, Iraq. -Hussein grew up in Auja, a village of mud-brick huts northwest of Baghdad -While attending college in Baghdad he joined the Ba'ath party (at the age of 19) and in 1956 Hussein took part in an abortive coup -In 1963, with the Ba'ath party in control in Baghdad -The coalition war against Iraq in 2003, Hussein's governmen t collapsed .