Trained as a military officer, Juan Perón rose to political power following a coup. His three-term presidency, with his wife Evita as Vice President, led to the positive growth in the Argentine economy but came with restrictions on civil liberties. Fidel Castro was the leader of the Cuban Revolution and founder of communist Cuba, the first communist country in the Western Hemisphere. Castro survived more than 600 CIA assassination plots to become the longest serving non-royal leader of the 20th Century, until he passed the throne to his brother in 2008.