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Fidel Castro – a life in pictures

From precocious schoolboy, to revolutionary guerrilla to world statesman, the life of Fidel Castro of Cuba has been a colourful one

Main image: Fidel Castro, a legendary cigar smoker until he gave up tobacco in 1985. Photograph: Charles Tasnadi/AP

Sat 26 Nov 2016 05.52 GMT Last modified on Thu 1 Dec 2016 23.59 GMT

  • The young Fidel Castro eating a lollipop with his schoolmates at Nuestra Senora de Dolores school in Santiago, Cuba, 1940

  • With first wife Mirta and his son Fidelito, or Fidel Jr, early 1950s

  • Castro is questioned by police and military officials at the Vivac prison in Santiago de Cuba after he and some 140 rebels attacked the federal garrison at Moncada, the first armed action of the Cuban Revolution in 1953

  • Castro leads his victorious troops

  • Castro speaking from a makeshift balcony draped with Cuban flags in Santa Clara on the ‘March to Havana’, 1959

  • Castro holds up a newspaper in New York in 1959. When asked about a reported assassination attempt, Castro had replied, ‘In Cuba, they had tanks, planes and they run away. So what are they going to do here? I sleep well and don’t worry at all’

  • Castro jumps from a tank in April 1961 as he arrives at Girón near the Bay Of Pigs, the stage for one of the most memorable chapters in the struggle between Washington and Havana: the invasion of Cuba by a CIA-trained band of armed exiles

  • Holding the hand of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during a four-week official visit to Moscow, 1963

  • Fidel Castro outside the Statler Hotel on a visit to New York

  • Castro cutting sugar cane, Cuba, 1970

  • Looking at a rifle during a visit to North Vietnam during the Vietnam war, 1973

  • Castro with Nelson Mandela in 1991 in Matanzas

  • Castro watches former US president Jimmy Carter throw a baseball prior to the start of a a friendly baseball match between two Cuban teams on 14 May 2002 in Havana, Cuba

  • Fidel, right, with his brother Raul.

  • Castro speaks during the ceremony in which President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was given the Unesco José Martí award for his efforts in education, on 3 February 2006 in Havana.
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