Fidel Castro: A Life in Pictures

Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, April 29, 1961. The man who nationalized the Cuban economy and controlled virtually every aspect of life on the island, died at age 90. AP Photos/Files
Soldiers of Rebel Chief Fidel Castro take positions on road bank as the revolutionary leader makes a roadside appearance, Jan. 7, 1959. AP Photo
Fidel Castro, then Cuban Prime Minister, with guerrilla leader Ernesto Che Guevara in Havana, during the 1960s. AFP/Getty Images
Cuban President Fidel Castro in Bayamo, Cuba during ceremonies to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the 1953 assault on the Moncada military barracks, July 27th, 2006. Jose GOITIA/Gamma/Rapho via Getty Images
The caption describing Fidel Castro in his 1945 high school yearbook reads: "Distinguished student and a fine athlete. Very popular. Will study law and we have no doubt he will have a brilliant future." AP Photo
Cuban President Fidel Castro delivers a speech during a rally in Santiago, Cuba, June 8, 2002. AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro exhales cigar smoke during an interview at his presidential palace in Havana, Cuba, March 1985. AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi
Fidel Castro, the young anti-Batista guerrilla leader, with his brother Raul Castro, left, and Camilo Cienfuegos, right, while operating in the Mountains of Eastern Cuba, March 14, 1957. AP Photo/Andrew St. George
Comandante Fidel Castro, the new leader of Cuba, talks to reporters about his successful Cuban revolution in his suite at the Hotel New Yorker on April 22,1959. I.C. Rapoport/Getty Images
Fidel Castro smokes a cigar in his office in Havana, Cuba, circa 1977. David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images
Prime Minister Fidel Castro cutting sugar cane with thousands of other volunteer workers, Feb. 13, 1961. AP Photo
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro speaks to supporters Jan. 8, 1959 at the Batista military base. On Jan. 1, 1959, dictator President Fulgencio Batista fled the country and Castro's rebels took control. AP Photo
Cuban President Fidel Castro, centre, arriving in Havana, Cuba, with Che Geuvara, right, and Major Camilo Cienfeugos, top, Dec. 1, 1959. Keystone/Getty Images
Screen capture of Cuban guerilla leader and future dictator Fidel Castro and associates on the CBS News Special Event 'Rebels of the Sierra Maestra,' Cuba, 1957. CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro during an address in Cuba after Batista was forced to flee, 1959. Keystone/Getty Images
Cuban guerrilla leader Fidel Castro does some reading at his rebel base in Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains in 1957. AP Photo/Andrew St. George
Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro embraces Camilo Cienfuegos, Revolutionary Army commander, in Santiago, Cuba, Jan. 4, 1959. AP Photo
Fidel Castro waves twenty million-dollar check representing funds seized from Batista and his supporters, July 26, 1959, in Havana. AP Photo/Jim Kerlin
Fidel Castro wearing the uniform of the Barbudos army baseball team takes warm-up pitches before the start of exhibition game, July 24, 1959 in Havana. Castro pitched one inning for the army team. AP Photo
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro playing baseball, 1965. Keystone/Getty Images
Ernest Hemingway with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, Cuba, late 1959. American Stock Photos/Getty Images
Ernesto Che Guevara (front) plays golf as Fidel Castro stands behind him at Colina Villareal in Havana in this undated photo. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
Fidel Castro addresses the crowd during an event at Revolution Square in Havana in this undated photo. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro speaks on the eve of the military trial of more than a hundred insurgents captured in the mountains, Oct. 10, 1960 in Havana. He warned, "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword" to those who attacked his regime. AP Photo
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro plays table tennis with visiting U.S. students at Varadaro, Cuba, when students who defied the U.S. State Department ban on travel to Cuba visited there, Aug. 30, 1963. AP Photo/John Salter
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro replies to President Kennedy's naval blockade over Cuban radio and television, Oct. 23, 1962. AP Photo
Fidel Castro, fresh from a visit to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in front of the Capitol, April 17, 1959. AP Photo
Cuban leader Fidel Castro and veteran Cuban players after winning an exhibition game between Cuba and Venezuela in Havana, Nov. 18, 1999. AP Photo/Jose Goitia
Prime Minister Fidel Castro holds a press conference at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem while visiting New York to address the United Nations on Sept. 22, 1960. I.C. Rapoport/Getty Images
Cuban President Fidel Castro addresses the audience at the United Nations, Oct. 12, 1979. REUTERS/Prensa Latina
President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Fidel Castro at the baseball stadium "Latinoamericano" in Havana, May 14, 2002. REUTERS/Rafael Perez
Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev hug at the United Nations, Sept. 20, 1960. AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., April 16, 1959. AP Photo
Cuban President Fidel Castro and African leader Nelson Mandela during the celebration of the "Day of the Revolution" in Matanzas, July 27, 1991. AP Photo
Cuban President Fidel Castro at the Great Wall of China, Dec. 1, 1995. AP Photo/Greg Baker
Pope John Paul II listens to a welcoming speech by President Fidel Castro of Cuba, Jan 21, 1998 in Havana. AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta
Cuban President Fidel Castro acknowledges the applause of the audience while standing underneath an image of late revolutionary hero Ernesto Che Guevara in Havana, June 17, 2005. REUTERS/Claudia Daut
Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, Cuban President Fidel Castro and Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball, watch game between the Orioles and the Cuban national team in Havana, March 28, 1999. AP Photo/Roberto Borea
Fidel Castro attends the closing ceremony of the seventh Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana, April 19, 2016. Omara Garcia/Courtesy of AIN via REUTERS
Fidel Castro addresses the audience during an event with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in Havana's Revolution Square, Feb. 3, 2006. REUTERS/Stringer