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Raúl’s Cuba

Life in pictures: Fidel Castro

Published: December 16 2005 17:24 | Last updated: February 13 2007 17:47

Our gallery shows the Cuban leader from his schooldays to his time in the Sierra Maestra mountains during his two-year guerrilla war against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to the Cuban missile crisis and beyond.

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