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Fidel Castro 1926-2016

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In this undated file photo, Fidel Castro poses for a portrait in an unknown location. Cuba's President Raul Castro said on state television that his older brother Fidel died late Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. He was 90.

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In this March 14, 1957 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.

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In this Jan. 1959 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro addresses a crowd in a park in front of the presidential palace in Havana, Cuba.

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In in this Feb. 6, 1959 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro speaks to a crowd during his triumphant march to Havana after the fall of the Batista regime.

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In this 1960 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, third from right, shakes hands with U.S. boxer Joe Louis during a welcoming ceremony in Havana, Cuba.

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In this 1960 photo, Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, center, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, left, and Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos, right, attend a reception in an unknown location in Cuba.

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In this March 5, 1960 photo, Cuban leaders walk arm-in-arm at the head of the funeral procession for the victims of the La Coubre explosion, blamed by the Cuban government on a U.S. bomb attack on the Cuban ship La Coubre in the harbor of Havana, Cuba. From left to right are Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, the first president of post-Batista Cuba, Osvaldo Dorticos, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Defense Minister Augusto Martinez-Sanchez, ecology minister Antonio Nunez-Jimenez, American William Morgan from Toledo, Ohio, and Spaniard Eloy Guttierez Menoyo.

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In this Feb. 13, 1961 photo provided by Cuba's government, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro cuts sugar cane in an unknown location in Cuba. Castro has died at age 90.

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In this April 1961 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, bottom, looks out from a tank during the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.

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In this April 14, 1966 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro stands on a sugar cane plantation in Cuba.

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In this Oct. 1967 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, top right, delivers a speech during a rally in Bayamo, Cuba.

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In this May 1972 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro smiles during a visit to the Cuban embassy in Algiers, Algeria.

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In this June 1972 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro autographs a book during his visit to East Berlin in the former German Democratic Republic.

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In this June 1972 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, right, reviews troops during his visit to Leuna, formerly the German Democratic Republic. With Castro is East German President Erich Honecker.

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In this May 7, 1975 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.

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In this Oct. 12, 1979 photo, Cuban President, Fidel Castro, points during his lengthy speech before the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.

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In this Feb. 1981 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro speaks during the XXVI Congress of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in Moscow, Russia.

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In this March 1985 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro exhales cigar smoke during an interview at the presidential palace in Havana, Cuba.

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In this Dec. 2, 1995 photo, Cuban President Fidel Castro tours Beijing's Tiananmen Square after laying a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes, which commemorates fallen communist revolutionaries.

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In this Friday, Dec. 1, 1995 photo, Cuban President Fidel Castro stands on the Great Wall of China, 44 miles north of Beijing.

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In this Jan. 25, 1998 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, left, greets former Pope John Paul II at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana.

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In this Aug.18, 1999 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro gestures at a speaking event as he explains that he does not understand why he is not blind after all the camera flashes he has received in Havana, Cuba.

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In this undated file publicity photo released by HBO, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, left, walks with Oliver Stone during Stone's making of the HBO documentary "Looking for Fidel" in Havana, Cuba.

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In this Thursday, Dec. 14, 2000 photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Cuban President Fidel Castro talk before signing agreements in Havana, Cuba.

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In this May 14, 2002 photo, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, right, accompanied by Cuban leader Fidel Castro, warms up before throwing the first pitch in an all-star baseball game at the Latin American Stadium in Havana, Cuba.

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In this Sunday, March 2, 2003 photo, Cuban President Fidel Castro, left, gives signals to a pack of press photographers after "enough" of photo session with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo.

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In this May 1, 2006 photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro speaks on International Workers Day in Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba.

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In this April 19, 2011 photo, Fidel Castro, left, raises his brother's hand, Cuba's President Raul Castro, center, as they sing the anthem of international socialism during the 6th Communist Party Congress in Havana, Cuba.

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In this April 19 photo, Fidel Castro attends the last day of the 7th Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro formally stepped down in 2008 after suffering gastrointestinal ailments and public appearances have been increasingly unusual in recent years.

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In this Aug. 13, photo, Cuba's former President Fidel Castro attends a gala for his 90th birthday at the Karl Marx theater in Havana, Cuba.

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In this Sept. 25 photo, Cuba's former President Fidel Castro, right, talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, second left, and his wife Cheng Hong, left, in Havana, Cuba.

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Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro, right, shakes hands with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, left, in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 15.

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