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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. 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.
  9. MILAN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 14: Luke McLean kicks che ball during the Test Match between Italy and New Zealand at the San Siro Stadium on November 14, 2009 in Milan, Italy.
  10. A supporter of Honduran ousted President Manuel Zelaya wearing a headscarf with the image of Argentine-born revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, participates of a meeting at a workers' union on November 8, 2009 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A deal aimed at ending Honduras' months-long crisis has 'failed,' an aide to Zelaya said, after interim leader Roberto Micheletti formed a government without his participation.
  11. A supporter of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya wears a beret with the portrait of Argentine-born revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a pin of Zelaya during a protest against the military coup d'etat in El Hato de En medio neighbourhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 10, 2009. Dialogue between Zelaya and the de facto government began a three-day pause today, prolonging uncertainty in the almost four-month standoff that followed a June coup. The resumption of talks on Tuesday will come just two days before the October 15 deadline given by the Zelaya camp for his unconditional restitution.
  12. A member of the National Front against the coup listens to ousted Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya's speech next to a frag with the portrait of Argentine-born revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara outside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa on September 21, 2009. Zelaya made a surprise return to the country almost three months after soldiers expelled him in a coup.
  13. A member of the National Front against the coup listens to ousted Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya's speech next to a frag with the portrait of Argentine-born revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara outside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa on September 21, 2009. Zelaya made a surprise return to the country almost three months after soldiers expelled him in a coup.
  14. Supporters of ousted Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, hold a banner of Argentine-born revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as they remain in the surroundings of the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa on September 21, 2009. Zelaya made a surprise return to the country almost three months after soldiers expelled him in a coup.
  15. A man waves a flag with an image of Latin American revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, in front of the embassy of the United States in San Salvador, to protest against the blockade of Cuba, on September 11, 2009.
  16. A supporter of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya shows a banner with a portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara during a protest of the national Resistence to the Coup d'Etat on September 10, 2009 in Tegucigalpa, during the celebration of the Day of the Child in Honduras.

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