Goodbye comrade: Ten pictures that define Fidel Castro
Havana: Fidel Castro, the communist revolutionary who presided over Cuba for nearly half a century, died at the age of 90 on November 25 this year.
Havana: Fidel Castro, the communist revolutionary who presided over Cuba for nearly half a century, died at the age of 90 on November 25 this year.
Fidel was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.
For fifty years, Castro captured the American political imagination as the face of communism in Cuba. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
According to the Cuba government, he survived at least 634 assassination plots, allegedly orchestrated by the US government.
At presidential palace in Havana
Fidel Castro with brother and Cuban president
With Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara
The Cuban leader while speaking to tobacco workers
Fidel Castro at the Town Square of Camaguey
On victorious march to Havana
On a trip to New York City
Fidel Castro with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro meets Pope Francis at Cuban leader's residence
Pope Francis and Fidel Castro embrace hands at a 40-minute meeting at Castro's residence during the pontiff's trip to Havana in 2015. The meeting between Francis and Castro at the time was described by the Vatican as 'friendly and informal,' with the two swapping books about religion and talking about “the common problems of humanity,” including environmental degradation.