‘Looking for Fidel’: Life of the revolutionary Cuban leader, in pictures
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In this February 6, 1959 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro speaks to a crowd during his triumphant march to Havana after the fall of the Batista regime. Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90. The bearded revolutionary, who survived a crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as dozens, possibly hundreds, of assassination plots, died eight years after ill health forced him to formally hand power over to his younger brother Raul, who announced his death on Friday. (AP)
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In this April 1961 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, bottom, looks out from a tank during the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. (AP)
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In this February 26, 1957 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro stands in an unknown location in Cuba. (AP)
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In this January 1959 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro addresses a crowd in a park in front of the presidential palace in Havana, Cuba. (AP)
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In this March 14, 1957 file photo, Fidel Castro, the young anti-Batista guerrilla leader, center, is seen with his brother Raul Castro, left, and Camilo Cienfuegos, right, while operating in the Mountains of Eastern Cuba. (AP)
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In this October 12, 1979 file photo, Cuban President, Fidel Castro, points during his lengthy speech before the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. (AP)
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In this September 26, 1960 file photo, clad in his trademark green military fatigues, Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounces the United States in the longest timed speech ever in the U.N. General Assembly. (AP)
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Then Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro smokes a cigar during interviews with the press during a visit of U.S. Senator Charles McGovern, in Havana in this May 1975 file photo. (REUTERS)
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In this May 1, 1963 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, left, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev clasp hands at the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square on May Day in Moscow, Russia. (AP)
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In this May 7, 1975 file photo, Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro, center right, responds to a question from American NBC reporter Barbara Walters at a news conference granted to members of the U.S. press covering Sen. George McGovern’s trip to Cuba, in Havana, Cuba. (AP)
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In this handout picture released by Cuban newspaper Granma, former President Fidel Castro (R) is seen during a meeting with Japanese Prime Ministro Shinzo Abe (L), in Havana on September 22, 2016. (AFP)
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Then Cuban President Fidel Castro laughs during the year-end session of the Cuban parliament in Havana in this December 23, 2005 file photo. (REUTERS)
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Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) and Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona play with a ball during an interview in La Havana, in this October 26, 2005 file photo. (REUTERS)
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Then Cuban President Fidel Castro glances over his shoulder during the May Day commemoration at Revolution Square in Havana, in this May 1, 2004 file photo. (REUTERS)
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Cuban President Fidel Castro shows a copy of a newspaper in this August 13, 2006 file photo. (REUTERS)
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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro attends the closing ceremony of the sixth Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana in this April 19, 2011 file photo. (REUTERS)
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Then Cuban President Fidel Castro (R) and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez chat on the field after taking part in a friendly baseball game between their two countries at the Barquisimeto baseball stadium in this October 29, 2000 file photo. (REUTERS)
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) and his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro joke after joining their medallions, given by medical graduates, at Havana's Karl Marx theatre, in this August 20, 2005 file photo. (REUTERS)
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Then Cuban President Fidel Castro looks at a news ticker flashing on the front windows of the U.S. diplomatic mission while visiting the construction site outside the mission in Havana in this January 25, 2006 file photo. (REUTERS)
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The house where Cuba's former President Fidel Castro and his brother, President Raul Castro, were born which has been turned into a museum open to the public, is seen in Biran, Cuba, June 10, 2016. (REUTERS)
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