In this Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, photo taken and released Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, by Cuba's newspaper Juventud Rebelde, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, right, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa meet in Havana. Castro, 83, wore a white shirt instead of the sports apparel he had worn in recent photos. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 months ago

In this Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, photo taken and released Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, by Cuba's newspaper Juventud Rebelde, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, right, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa meet in Havana. Castro, 83, wore a white shirt instead of the sports apparel he had worn in recent photos.

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  1. A man rides on his horse carriage past an image of Cuba's leader Fidel Castro in Bayamo, eastern Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.
  2. HAVANA - DECEMBER 1: Cuban President Raul Castro (L), brother of Revolution leader Fidel Castro, and Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (R) walk past an honor guard during an official welcome ceremony in the State Council December 1, 2009, in Havana, Cuba. Cuba and Tanzania have had diplomatic relations since 1962.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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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. A man rides on his horse carriage past an image of Cuba's leader Fidel Castro in Bayamo, eastern Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.
  9. HAVANA - DECEMBER 1: President Raul Castro of Cuba, brother of Revolution leader Fidel Castro, attends the official welcome ceremony for President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwett of Tanzania in the State Council December 1, 2009, in Havana, Cuba. Cuba and Tanzania have had diplomatic relations since 1962.
  10. HAVANA - DECEMBER 1: Cuban President Raul Castro (L), brother of Revolution leader Fidel Castro, and Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (R) walk past an honor guard during an official welcome ceremony in the State Council December 1, 2009, in Havana, Cuba. Cuba and Tanzania have had diplomatic relations since 1962.
  11. South Africa's Foreign Affairs Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane stands next to an image of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Jose Marti monument in Havana November 30, 2009.
  12. 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.
  13. Medical science students hold up images of Cuba's leader Fidel Castro during a march to commemorate the 138th anniversary of the execution of eight medicine students by the Spanish colonial government in Havana, Friday, Nov.27, 2009. Thousands marched to commemorate the event that took place during Cuba's war of Independence.
  14. A worker paints the Granma boat during restoration works in the Museum of the Revolution which was the presidential palace before Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution in Havana November 2009. Granma was used to transport 82 guerrilla fighters including their leader, Fidel Castro, his brother Raul Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 launching the Cuban Revolution.
  15. School children chant: "Pioneers for Communism, we will be like Che", with their hands raised in a salute to the late revolutionary hero Che Guevara 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.
  16. School children attend computing lessons 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.

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