Phonetic transliteration of 'Fidel Castro' —
菲德尔 (Fēidé'ěr) approximates 'Fi-del' and
卡斯特罗 (Kǎsītèluó) approximates 'Cas-tro'. The middle dot · separates given name from family name in Chinese renderings of Western names. Castro led Cuba for nearly half a century after the 1959 revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista.