Fidel Castro Political views on the 12 axes

Ran Cuba from Havana as a single centralised state, where provinces and local assemblies carried out national plans rather than setting their own course.

Banned rival parties, never held a competitive national election and wrote the Communist Party into the 1976 constitution as the leading force of state and society.

Revolutionary tribunals executed hundreds of Batista-era officials in 1959, and his state jailed dissidents and controlled all media, a strong pull toward Security.

Sent troops to Angola from 1975 and doctors around the world, yet framed his politics around Cuban sovereignty against the United States, so he sits near the middle.

Came to power through guerrilla war, built large armed forces and popular militias, and sent combat troops to fight in Angola and Ethiopia.

The state held a monopoly on foreign trade, and from 1972 Cuba traded mainly inside the Soviet-led Comecon bloc rather than on open markets.

Nationalised land, banks and industry, rationed basic goods and made education and healthcare free, putting equal living standards before private wealth.

Replaced markets with central state planning, and in the 1968 Revolutionary Offensive nationalised even small shops and street businesses.

Under him Cuba was officially atheist until 1992 and curbed the churches, though he later eased those limits and welcomed three papal visits.

Ran a mass literacy campaign and drew women into education and work, yet in the 1960s sent gay men to labour camps, so he lands mid-way.

Invested in medical research and built a biotechnology industry from the 1980s, a modest lean toward Technology in a country short of resources.