Former Cuba's President Fidel Castro (R) meets visiting Ecuador's President Rafael Correa in this August 21, 2009 photograph released by Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde. The official Cuban newspaper on Sunday published the photograph of 83-year-old Castro apparently in good health and meeting visiting Correa. Castro, the leader of Cuba's 1959 revolution that brought Communism to the Caribbean island, has remained out of public view for the last three years and in 2008 handed over the presidency to younger brother Raul Castro for health reasons. Reuters Pictures 3 months ago

Former Cuba's President Fidel Castro (R) meets visiting Ecuador's President Rafael Correa in this August 21, 2009 photograph released by Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde. The official Cuban newspaper on Sunday published the photograph of 83-year-old Castro apparently in good health and meeting visiting Correa. Castro, the leader of Cuba's 1959 revolution that brought Communism to the Caribbean island, has remained out of public view for the last three years and in 2008 handed over the presidency to younger brother Raul Castro for health reasons.

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  1. School children read about national hero Jose Marti during a computer lesson at "Martires de Tarara" primary school in Havana November 24, 2009. Universal free education is one of the pillars of the socialist society built in Cuba since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.
  2. HAVANA - NOVEMBER 20: Cuban dissident Reinaldo Escobar (C) holds on to friends as supporters of Fidel Castro and the Revolution jostels them on November 20, 2009, in Havana, Cuba. Escobar had challenged the agent, who allegedly roughed up his wife, prominent Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on November 6, during a dissident march today to a verbal duel in the center of Havana`s Vedado district. Soon after Escobar arrived to wait for the agent at the sport where his wife was detained, government supporters yelled Revolution propaganda and pushed Escobar away. He was finally taken by state agents.
  3. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Former Cuban political prisoners Guillermo Estevez listens to testimony during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from witnesses on both sides of the issue as Congress gears up for a battle over Cuba policy, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the decades-old ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island. Estevez, a pilot in the Cuban Air Force, was sentanced to 30 years in prison in 1959 by Fidel Castro's revolutionary government. He served 20 years of hard labor in 12 different prisons where he says he was tortured and isolated.
  4. HAVANA - SEPTEMBER 13: A Cuban woman passes by a wreath sent by Revolution leader Fidel Castro as Cuba pays tribute to Juan Almeida Bosque, Commander of the Cuban Revolution and Vice-President on September 13, 2009 in Havana, Cuba. Bosque, 82, died of a heart attack on September 11, 2009, in Havana, Cuba. Almeida was one of the key figures of Fidel Castro's Revolution participating in the attack of the Moncada barracks, the exile in Mexico, the guerrilla war in the Sierra Maestra that finally led to the Revolution's victory over the Batista regime in 1959.
  5. HAVANA - SEPTEMBER 12: Cubans gather in front of five stars made of wood during a political act to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the detention of the so-called Miami-Five, at the on September 12, 2009 in Havana, Cuba. The so-called 'Cuban Five' are five Cuban men convicted in the U.S. on conspiracy and espionage charges for spying on behalf of Fidel Castro's government, while Cuba claims they were only infiltrating the Cuban-Exile community to prevent further terrorists attacks against Cuba.

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  1. Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro sits in front of a computer during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida October 27, 2009. Using the code name Donna, the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s, helping opponents of their communist rule escape execution and imprisonment, she said in memoirs published in exile on Monday.
  2. Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, sits next to a poster for her book "Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, the Secret History", during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida October 27, 2009. Using the code name Donna, the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s, helping opponents of their communist rule escape execution and imprisonment, she said in memoirs published in exile on Monday.
  3. Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida October 27, 2009.
  4. Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida October 27, 2009.
  5. Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida October 27, 2009.
  6. "Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, the Secret History", the memoirs of Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is displayed on the table near Castro as she sits during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida October 27, 2009.
  7. Cuban President Fidel Castro (R), his brother and Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro (C) stand with Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida as they preside over a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the death of independence hero Antonio Maceo, in Havana in this December 7, 1996 file photo. Almeida, one of the original leaders of the Cuban revolution, has died of heart failure at the age of 82, state-run press said on September 12, 2009. Almeida was at the side of Fidel and Raul Castro from the earliest days of the revolution and was the only black commander in the leadership.
  8. Cuban students hold posters of Cuba's retired leader Fidel Castro during a march in Havana November 27, 2009. Thousands of Cuban students marched through the Cuban capital to mark the anniversary of the deaths of student leaders killed during the fight against Spanish colonial rule.
  9. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev listens to President Of Ecuador Rafael Correa during a press conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.
  10. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: Russian businessman Yevgeny Dod during a press conference held for President Of Ecuador Rafael Correa, at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.
  11. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev listens to President Of Ecuador Rafael Correa during a press conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.
  12. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) receives Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa during a press conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.
  13. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: President Of Ecuador Rafael Correa, speaks during a press conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.
  14. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) receives Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa during a press conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.
  15. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) receives Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa during a press conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.
  16. MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) receives Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa during a press conference at the Grand Kremlin Palace, on October, 29, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Correa is on on a three-day official visit for meetings on energy and nuclear cooperation.

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