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6 Interesting Facts About Fidel Castro
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Fidel Castro stands in an open vehicle wearing military fatigues and cap, smoking a large cigar, with an apartment building in the background. Vice President Richard Nixon gestures while speaking with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro in Washington, D.C.; both men face each other in conversation. Fidel Castro, wearing military attire, sits surrounded by four smiling women as he is presented with an invitation to the New York Press Photographer's Ball in 1959. Fidel Castro Smoking a Cigar with Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway, 1960 Cuban President Fidel Castro in a green military uniform speaks with Baltimore Orioles baseball players Mike Murphy and Albert Belle before a game in Havana.
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Fidel Castro
With his military fatigues, beard, and ever-present cigar, the Cuban leader developed...
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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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Beard of the hour
Surrounded by admirers in New York City in April 1959, the newly victorious Cuban...
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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.
Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway, 1960
Ernest Hemingway and Fidel Castro exchange greetings in Cojímar, Cuba, on May 15,...
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Fidel Takes the Field
Cuban Pres. Fidel Castro talks with Baltimore Orioles players Mike Murphy (right)...
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