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Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a visit to Washington, D.C., 1959.
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Castro arriving in Havana on January 8, 1959
Fidel Castro waving to a cheering crowd upon his arrival in Havana on January 8,...
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Fidel Castro giving a speech from a makeshift balcony on January 1, 1959, en route...
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Ernest Hemingway and Fidel Castro
American writer Ernest Hemingway and Cuban leader Fidel Castro at Cojímar, Cuba,...
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Fidel Castro, 1964.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro addressing the UN General Assembly, New York City, October...
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Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev.
A jovial greeting takes place between Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro and the...
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Fidel Castro, 2006
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Fidel Castro, 2003
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Cuba-U.S. relations after the revolution
Fidel Castro in 2004, following more than four decades of political estrangement...
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Richard Nixon and Fidel Castro, 1959
U.S. Vice Pres. Richard Nixon meets with Fidel Castro in Washington, D.C., in April...
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Fidel Castro Smoking a Cigar with Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal
A cigar became one of Fidel Castro's most iconic trademarks, symbolizing both his...
Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. Photograph by Sandra Eleta.
A celebration of the 26th of July Movement in Revolution Square in Havana
A large crowd in Havana listening to Fidel Castro's speech on National Rebellion...
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