Fidel Castro: 1926-2016

1. Fidel Castro: 1926-2016

2. Former Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro goes to the end function of the 6th Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana April 19, 2011. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

3. Former President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Fidel Castro listen to the Cuban national song of devotion at the baseball stadium "Latinoamericano" in Havana in this May 14, 2002. REUTERS/Rafael Perez/File Photo

4. Former Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro holds up the arm of his sibling, Cuba's President Raul Castro, amid the end function of the 6th Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana April 19, 2011. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

5. (L-R) Manuel Pineiro, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, a unidentified young lady and Vilma Espin together in Havana in this undated record photograph. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

6. Pope Benedict XVI meets previous Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro in Havana March 28, 2012. REUTERS/Alex Castro-Cubadebate

7. Cuba's President Fidel Castro goes to a Mercosur exchange alliance summit in Cordoba, Argentina, July 21, 2006. REUTERS/David Mercado

8. Fidel Castro bats amid the initiation session of the Amateur Baseball Championship in Havana in 1963. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

9. Former Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez read a duplicate of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) daily paper "Granma" in Havana June 28, 2011, in this gift picture. The vanishing of 56-year-old Chavez from general visibility since a June 10 operation has writhed the unpredictable and politically captivated South American OPEC part country of 29 million individuals. REUTERS/Revolution Studios/Cubadebate

10. Cuba's previous President Fidel Castro and Vietnam's previous President Tran Dai Quang meet in Havana, Cuba November 15, 2016. Alex Castro/Courtesy of Granma

11. Fidel Castro unwinds in a swimming pool amid a visit to Romania, May 28, 1972. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

12. Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro hones his batting with individuals from the Cuban national baseball group in the wake of participating in an amicable baseball against Venezuela at Barquisimeto's baseball stadium October 29, 2000. REUTERS/

13. Fidel Castro addresses the gathering of people as president of the Non-Aligned Movement at the United Nations in New York, October 12, 1979. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

14. Cuba's previous President Fidel Castro (R) and Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal meet in Havana, Cuba, October 13, 2016. Alex Castro/Courtesy of Cubadebate

15. Cuba's previous President Fidel Castro meets with Cheng Hong and her significant other Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Havana, Cuba, September 25, 2016. Alex Castro/Courtesy of Cubadebate/Handout by means of REUTERS

16. President Fidel Castro addresses the gathering of people as president of the Non-Aligned Movement at the United Nations in New York, October 12, 1979. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

17. Former Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro demonstrates a duplicate of the October 19, 2012 Granma daily paper in Havana October 19, 2012. Castro expelled reports that he was dead or close passing in an article distributed on Monday in Cuba's state-run press. He blamed news offices and adversaries for Cuba of spreading "stupidities" about him, especially a report from a Spanish daily paper that said he had endured a huge stroke and was in a vegetative state.

18. Former Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro talks on a cell phone at the presentation of his life story "Guerrillero del tiempo" or "Time Warrior" in this photo discharged by Cuban site Cubadebate in Havana February 3, 2012. REUTERS/Courtesy of Cubadebate/Roberto Chile

19. Former Cuban pioneer Fidel Castro and previous President Jimmy Carter talk amid a meeting in Havana March 30, 2011. REUTERS/Alex Castro/Courtesy of Cubadebate

20. Fidel Castro smokes a stogie amid meetings with the press in Havana amid a visit of U.S. Congressperson George McGovern, May 1975. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

21. Former South African President Nelson Mandela (L) embraces Cuba's President Fidel Castro amid a visit to Mandela's home in Houghton, Johannesburg in this September 2, 2001 document photograph. REUTERS/Chris Kotze

22. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visits his Cuban partner Fidel Castro in Havana August 13, 2006. REUTERS/Estudios Revolucion-Granma

23. Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona interviews Cuban President Fidel Castro in La Havana October 26, 2005. Maradona talked with Castro for his week by week network show in Argentina and guaranteed Castro he would be at the front of a hostile to Bush walk in Argentina. REUTERS/Canal 13

24. Cuban President Fidel Castro gets, at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe July 16, 2002. REUTERS/Rafael Perez

25. Cuban President Fidel Castro and Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona play with a ball amid a meeting in La Havana, October 26, 2005. Maradona was in Havana to meeting Castro for his week after week TV program in Argentina, to be circulated today evening time, and guaranteed President Castro he would be at the front of an against Bush walk in Argentina one week from now. REUTERS/Canal 13

26. China's President Jiang Zemin waves to the press after he was met by Cuba's President Fidel Castro at Havana's Jose Marti airplane terminal, April 12, 2001. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

27. Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Cuba's President Fidel Castro stand next to each other amid Putin's authentic inviting service outside Havana's Palace of the Revolution, December 14, 2000.REUTERS/Jorge Silva

28. Cuban President Fidel Castro goes to a meeting on psychological warfare in Havana's tradition focus June 3, 2005. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

29. Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) remains with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien amid Chretien's entry function at the Palace of the Revolution April 27, 1998. REUTERS/

30. Fidel Castro and PLO pioneer Yasser Arafat stand together at the air terminal in Havana amid Arafat's first visit to Cuba November 14, 1974. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

31. Cuba's pioneer Fidel Castro stops to peruse his watch amid Pope John Paul II's entry function at Jose Marti Airport, January 21, 1998. REUTERS/Zoraida Diaz

32. Cuba's President Fidel Castro and Soviet pioneer Mikhail Gorbachev trade archives amid a bargain marking service in Havana, April 4, 1989. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

33. Cuban President Fidel Castro is demonstrated blowing the birthday candles on his 70th birthday in Havana, August 13, 1996. REUTERS/Diario Granma

34. Fidel Castro plays b-ball with college understudies in Krakow, Poland, June 8, 1972. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

35. Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara go to the first National Meeting for Production in Cuba in this undated record photograph. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

36. Fidel Castro addresses the group after the 10 million tons sugar collect started in Cuba in 1970. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

37. Fidel Castro (R) meets with Reverend W.A.Raifford (second L), head of the White Birds from the Creek Indians in Havana in this document photograph from July 16, 1959. Raifford gave Castro the name Spiheechie Meeko (Big Warrior Chief). REUTERS/Prensa Latina

38. Fidel Castro goes to moves amid the commemoration of his and his kindred progressives entry on the yacht Granma, November 1976. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

39. Fidel Castro watches Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko on a TV transmission amid the Soyuz 38 space mission in Havana, September 1980. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

40. Fidel Castro talks amid a visit to Luanda, Angola in March, 1984. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

41. Fidel Castro imparts a giggle to Malcolm X at the Hotel Theresa in New York, October 19, 1960. REUTERS/Prensa Latina