Former South African President Nelson Mandela (left) hugs Cuba’s President Fidel Castro during a visit to Mandela’s home in Houghton, Johannesburg in September 2, 2001.
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Fidel Castro (right) meeting with the President of Vietnam, Tran Dai Quang (left), in Havana, Cuba, on November 15, 2016.
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Fidel Castro (right) shaking hands with Pope Francis in Havana on September 20, 2015.
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Cuban president Fidel Castro (left) welcoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (right) during the official ceremony for Gorbachev’s arrival in Havana, on April 2, 1989.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Boutros Ghali on his arrival at Bella center conference hall in 1995 in Copenhagen.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro (left) calling for time as former US president Jimmy Carter (right) prepares to throw the first pitch in a baseball game May 14, 2002 in Havana.
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez (left) and his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro joke after joining their medallions, given by medical graduates, at Havana’s Karl Marx theatre, in this August 20, 2005.
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Fidel Castro, right, holds hands with Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chavez as he recuperates from surgery in Havana, Cuba.
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Fidel Castro (left) chatting with Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1959
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Fidel Castro meets then-Vice President Richart Nixon at the Capitol in Washington, DC.
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