2. Fidel Castro sits in a tank during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April of 1961. Some 1,300 Cuban exiles, backed by the U.S. Government, invaded the island nation of
Cuba, attempting to overthrow the government of the Cuban.The invasion failed disastrously, with 90 of the invaders killed, and the rest captured within 3
days. (OAH/AFP/Getty Images)
4. Icon. Fidel Castro has held the reins of power in Cuba since 1959. Charles Tasnadi / Ap
5. Origins of a Revolutionary . The future dictator stands with his staff and troop commanders near the Cuban coastline in 1957. In November of the preceding year,
Castro and 81 other men, armed with assault rifles and a small store of ammunition, surreptitiously sailed onto Cuban shores. Bettmann / Corbis
6. The March to Havana . After Castro organized his small insurgency, an inept Cuban army was unable to stop them. After two years of battle in the countryside, the
hated dictator Batista fled the capital and Castro and his men headed for Havana. They were cheered by crowds all along the way. Grey Villet / Getty
7. Brothers in Arms. Raul Castro, foreground, acting as chauffeur for brother Fidel in 1964. He will now most likely assume the reins of power. Grey Villet / Getty
8. Che. With comrade Che Guevara before Castro's triumphant entry into Havana. Guevara, a doctor from Argentina, inspired the young revolutionary in the ways of
orthodox Marxism. AP
9. On Fire. Lighting up one of his famous cigars after attending a meeting on the reorganization of the party in Havana in 1963. Henri Cartier Bresson / Magnum
10. Back in the USSR. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev welcomes Castro at the podium atop Lenin's tomb in Moscow's Red Square in 1961. Seymour Raskin / Magnum
11. Missile Crisis. In 1962, Khrushchev installed nuclear-capable missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy declared a strategic blockade of the island and for twelve days, the
world teetered on the edge of nuclear war. When the Russians backed down, Castro raged at his Russian mentors. Hulton / Getty
12. United Nations. In front of the General
Assembly in 1960. Ralph Crane / Time & Life
Pictures / Getty
13. At Bat. Playing his beloved game of baseball, 1965. Castro was a star pitcher in college, noted for his curveball. Keystone / Getty
14. Orator. Making an impassioned speech to a peasant crowd in a mountain region of Cuba, 1965. Lee Lockwood / Time & Life Pictures / Getty
15. John Paul II. The Pope visits Havana in 1998. During his stay the Pontiff celebrated Mass in four different locations. Peter Turnley / Corbis
16. Elian Gonzalez. In 1999, the custody dispute over the six-year-old boy erupted into an international standoff, culminating in his seizure by federal agents from his
Miami-based relatives. Adalberto Roque / Afp / Corbis
17. Ever Defiant. During Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's visit in 1989. Dirck Halstead / Time & Life Pictures / Getty
18. Castro's Quarters. In 1958 Fidel Castro and his men encamped in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, in southwestern Cuba, several hundred miles from Havana. Enrique
Meneses / Aurora
19. Shot Heard Round the World. Fidel Castro's small band of rebels engaged in a series of small skirmishes with forces loyal to Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Here,
Castro takes aim at a government garrison near Pino del Agua. According to the photographer, Castro's shot initiated combat. Enrique Meneses / Aurora
20. Jungle Outpost . It is estimated that Castro's forces in early 1958 numbered no more than 200 men. Enrique Meneses / Aurora
21. Commander. Castro lights the cigarette of a young rebel with his own cigar. Enrique Meneses / Aurora
23. Prisoner. A Batista soldier is interrogated by Che Guevara. Meneses says when these photographs were exhibited in Havana, the former prisoner arrived in the
uniform of a general, explaining that after this photo was taken, he switched allegiances and joined Castro's movement. Later, he fought with Cuban forces in Angola
and Eritrea. Enrique Meneses / Aurora
24. El Líder. A few months after Meneses filed these photos, Batista would flee Havana and Castro's forces would be left in control of the island nation. Enrique Meneses /
Aurora
25. Ernesto Che Guevara plays golf as Fidel Castro stands behind him at Colina Villareal in Havana. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
26. Manuel Pineiro, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, an unidentified girl and Vilma Espin together in Havana. REUTERS/ Prensa Latina
27. Fidel Castro bats during the inauguration game of the Amateur Baseball Championship in Havana in 1963. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
28. Fidel Castro attends maneuvers during the anniversary of his and his fellow revolutionaries arrival on the yacht Granma, November 1976. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
29. Fidel Castro meets with Reverend W.A.Raifford, chief of the White Birds from the Creek Indians, in Havana, July 16, 1959. Raifford gave Castro the name Spiheechie
Meeko - Big Warrior Chief. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
30. A soldier of the Cuban Armed Forces stands
atop a downed B-26 bomber after the Bay of
Pigs' invasion, April 1961. REUTERS/Prensa
Latina
31. Cuban soldiers (R) interview captured members of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, April 1961. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
32. Fidel Castro watches Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko on a television transmission during the Soyuz 38 space
mission, in Havana, September 1980. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
33. Fidel Castro presents Chile's President Salvador Allende with the Jose Marti medal during Allende's visit to Cuba, in Havana, December 14, 1972. REUTERS/Prensa
Latina
34. Cuban President Fidel Castro talks to members of the Cuban Armed Forces during the Bay of Pigs invasion, April 1961. REUTERS/Prensa Latina/Files
35. Fidel Castro addresses a crowd people in
La Plata in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba, during
the 15th anniversary of the Agrarian
Reform, May 17, 1974. REUTERS/Prensa
Latina
36. Cuba's President Eduardo Dorticos signs the nationalization of U.S. banks represented on the island as Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro looks on in Havana, 1960.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
37. Fidel Castro and Romania's President Nicolae Ceausescu, stand together during an event at the cement factory "Merceron" in Santiago de Cuba, August 1973.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
38. Cuban President Fidel Castro (3rd row, R) enters a public trial for captured members (seated) of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Havana, April 1961.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
39. Fidel Castro and PLO leader Yasser Arafat stand together at the airport in Havana during Arafat's first visit to Cuba, November 14, 1974. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
40. File photo of (L-R) Chief of Cuba's Armed Forces Raul Castro, Cuba's cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, Cuba's President Fidel Castro and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri
Romanenko during a reception ceremony at Havana's Jose Marti airport, October 1980, after the cosmonauts returned from their space mission on Soyuz 38.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
41. Fidel Castro receives 255 children from Ukraine affected by the radiation fallout in Chernobyl and who will undergo medical treatment in Cuba, July 2, 1990.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
42. A soldier of the Cuban Armed Forces stands next to U.S.-built armaments captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion, April 1961. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
43. A captured member of the CIA-trained
invasion force after the Bay of Pigs
invasion, April 1961.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
44. Fidel Castro shakes hands with interim
U.N. Secretary U.Thant after a meeting on
the missile crisis in Havana, 1962.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
45. Fidel Castro gives his cap to
Argentina's soccer star Diego
Maradona at the Revolution
Palace in Havana, July 28, 1987.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
46. Chile's President Salvador Allende
and Fidel Castro visit the Valle de
Picadura in Cuba, December 1972.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
47. Cuba's President Fidel Castro talks to
women during a visit to Cienfuegos,
Cuba, after the region was affected by
heavy rains, June 10, 1988.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
48. Cuban President Fidel Castro replies to President Kennedy's naval blockade via Cuban radio and television, on October 23, 1962.(AP Photo/file)
49. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, second from right, confronts Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin, first on left, with a display of reconnaissance
photographs during emergency session of the U.N. Security Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on October 25, 1962. (AP Photo)
50. U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.(AP photo)
52. Ernesto "Che" Guevara w. lit cigar clenched between his teeth & his left arm in a sling, talking w. unseen person. Havana, Cuba January 7, 1959 Photographer:Joseph
Scherschel
53. Fidel Castro (R) standing on balcony of the Hilton Hotel with friends after his triumphal entry into the city. Havana, Cuba, 1959 Photographer:Joseph Scherschel
54. President of Cuba Manuel Urrutia (2L).Havana, Cuba 1959. Photographer:Joseph Scherschel
55. Camilo Cienfuegos (R) with others looking at pictures.Havana, Cuba 1959. Photographer:Joseph Scherschel
57. Camilo Cienfuegos with others looking at pictures.Havana, Cuba 1959 Photographer:Joseph Scherschel
58. Guerrilla soldiers under the command of Fidel Castro posing on a homemade APC in Cuba's Sierra Maestra AFP
59. Fidel Castro, President of Cuba holds up one of the first automatic assault rifles produced in Cuba, during the inauguration of the new weapons factory REUTERS
60. October 1962, Cuban Army anti-aircraft battery, placed along Havana's famous Malecon avenue, during the missile crisis between the former Soviet Union, Cuba and
the United States Picture: Reuters
61. Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (C, standing in jeep) with other revolution leader Camilo Cienfuegos (L, standing in jeep) as they enter the Cuban capital under the
cheers of the local residents after successfully overthrowing the Batista regime Picture: EPA
62. Former Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) next to deceased commander Juan Almeida Bosque (R) in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 1958 . EPA
67. La Havana. 1959. New years Day in Havana, confusion is rampant as Castro sympathizers come out into the streets with whatever weapons available. In Havana, loot
and destruction followed the news of President Batista's flight to the Dominican Republic. Armed civilians and soldiers attempt to stop the pillaging and restore law
and order. Burt Glinn
72. 1959. Raul CASTRO at a baseball game between the
Barbudos and the National Police Department. Bob
Henriques
73. Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos at a baseball game between the Barbudos and the National Police Department.. Bob Henriques
74. Havana. July 26, 1959. Fidel Castro at the sixth anniversary of the July 26th movement at Plaza Civica (now known as Plaza de la Revolucion). Bob Henriques
75. Havana, Cuba. 1959. Fidel Castro riding into Havana during the revolution escorted by Cuban Naval officers. Burt Glinn
77. Havana, Cuba, 1959. A young soldier speaking to a
woman during the revolution. Burt Glinn
78. Santa Clara, Cuba. 1959. Fidel Castro in front of
city hall where he spent hours talking to the crowds
of Santa Clara, a town liberated by Che Guevara.
Burt Glinn
79. La Havana. 1959. Local Castro sympathizers in Havana formed barricades to stop the Batista regime supporters from escaping from the city.. Burt Glinn
80. Santa Clara. 1959. As the triumphal column of Castro's revolutionary troops made their way from the Province of Oriente towards La Havana, they stopped at towns
and small villages and were greeted by young and old people. Burt Glinn
81. La Havana. 1959. Fidelistas ride liberated tanks into La Havana to accompain Castro on his entry into the city. Burt Glinn
82. USA. New York City. District of Harlem. 1960. Hotel Theresa.Henri Cartier-Bresson
83. Havana. 1963.. Fidel Castro speaks on reorganization of the party. Henri Cartier-Bresson
87. cast Revolutionary Cuba
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