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The long and extraordinary political career of Fidel Castro is over - at least as far as the presidency is concerned.

Witnesses at the time said he killed himself rather than surrender using a rifle given to him by his friend, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Members of the United States Congress have met the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the end of a five-day visit to the island.

MAX MARAMBIO, a Chilean businessman, can claim an unusual consequence of his friendship with Fidel Castro. It made him rich.

A frail asthmatic, he took up arms with Fidel Castro's guerrillas in Cuba's Sierra Maestra.

As to Fidel Castro, he frankly scorns the United States, sending his troops to distant adventures from his country right next to yours.

President Bush says he hopes the end of Fidel Castro's rule can be the beginning of peaceful reform.

Perhaps one thing is sure in Cuba: Fidel Castro will not show up for that.

The Cuban government says Fidel Castro is recovering from intestinal surgery and that his final moment is still very far away.

Many Cuban Americans in Miami have been waiting to hear word of Fidel Castro's health.

Raul Castro, who turns 80 in June, is expected to be elected First Secretary by the congress in place of his older brother Fidel Castro, 84.

He interrupted his speech at the rally to call Cuba's Fidel Castro, who he considers his mentor.

Earlier this year, Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba for decades, stepped down and ceded power to his brother, Raul.

The US used to look forward to a so-called "poof moment" when the communist system 90 miles off Florida collapsed upon Fidel Castro's death.

WHEN serious illness forced him to hand over power in 2006, Fidel Castro had been running things for almost half a century.

Cuban official newspaper "Granma" published on the front page 18, Fidel Castro, a signed article.

Cuban officials announced Monday that President Fidel Castro had temporarily handed power to his brother following surgery.

But he vowed that the island will not see fundamental change even after he and his older brother and predecessor Fidel Castro are gone.

Today, 44 years later, Fidel Castro, a diehard enemy of the United States, is still in power.

The first photograph of Fidel Castro to be published in five months appeared on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Fidel Castro stood down as Cuba's leader in 2006 with an intestinal illness, and was still too unwell to receive calls.

Today, like most days for the better part of the past eight years, he is locked away in a dungeon on Fidel Castro's island paradise.

As an exile in Mexico after this Fidel Castro organised other Cuban exiles and trained them in mountain warfare.

Fidel Castro has been bearing witness in recent years to this celestial sense of humour.

3In this April 1961 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro jumps from a tank as he arrives at Giron, Cuba, near the Bay Of Pigs.

Santeria High Priest prepares a rooster for sacrifice in a ceremony for the recovery of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

In 1961, a CIA-trained force made an unsuccessful attempt to land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and topple Fidel Castro.

"Fidel Castro remains a . . . controlling political presence, " Thomas Shannon, US assistant secretary of state, said recently.

The Soviet Union was lumbered with Fidel Castro, Mengistu Haile Mariam and the tyrants of its satellite states in eastern Europe.

Since then, the US has tried to assassinate Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president and Raul's brother, on several occasions.

A case in point is the long-standing U. S. embargo on Cuba, imposed in 1960 with the purpose of toppling Fidel Castro.

Hours later, in a brief essay posted on one of Cuba's state websites, Fidel Castro said Obama was "honest" in his ideas.

Mr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of State Council of Cuba, receiving a warm welcome when staying at the Hotel.

A stronger-looking Fidel Castro said his recovery from an intestinal ailment was "far from a lost battle" .

So says Fidel Castro this week in the latest of a series of articles published in Granma, the official Communist Party newspaper.

Fidel Castro turns 80 later this month. He has appeared increasingly frail in recent years and is rumored to have Parkinson's disease.

U. S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was asked if the end of Fidel Castro's rule would prompt an end to the decades-old U.

Reaction from around the world to the retirement of Cuban President Fidel Castro has been mixed and cautious.

Lula had a penchant for embracing dictators, from Cuba's Fidel Castro to Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Fidel Castro has since appeared in official photographs and videos and regularly is credited with essays on international themes.

Fidel Castro is no exception to this flaw inherent in remakes.

Bereft of patrons, desperate to rescue his economy, Fidel Castro turns to an unusual solution: . . .

Fidel Castro, former president, recently praised China's "rectifications" and told university students: "China is worth studying. "

Fidel Castro gave a televised interview, the former Cuban president's first public appearance in four years.

Fidel Castro has not held a meeting with a foreign leader since November 28.

The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.

In 1958 Fidel Castro and his men encamped in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, in southwestern Cuba, several hundred miles from Havana.

Fidel Castro was criticing of you for denying the Holocaust.

He then moved on, revealing a last greeter who had been invisible behind him: Fidel Castro.

A Cuban-American from Miami, she even once called for the assassination of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

He later worked for the CIA to undermine Fidel Castro and assist Nicaragua's right-wing Contra guerrillas.

Since the July 2006 surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding after 4 years without Fidel Castro appeared in public.

Winston Churchill and Fidel Castro fed the mystique, but it is Chinese smokers who could ultimately save the Cuban cigar.

While Vice President, Nixon allegedly organized an ill-fated convert plan to assassinate Fidel Castro.

The remote area was once a secret refuge of Fidel Castro, where the Cuban leader used to love to go to swim.

a form of communism developed in Cuba by Fidel Castro.

Although he is retiring as president, Fidel Castro remains first secretary of the Communist Party.

A man reads the pro-government newspaper Granma Behind him is billboard of leaders Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos in Havana on Jan.

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro during an address in Cuba after Batista was forced to flee.

He only represent a small minority of discontents exiled tibetan monks. He should copy the example of Fidel Castro and just retire .

President Bush denounced the regime of Cuban President Fidel Castro, saying its end is near.

On his first diplomatic visit to South America in April 1989, Gorbachev met with Fidel Castro in Havana.

Fidel Castro gained two degrees - one of them his doctorate - and became a lawyer in Havana.

Cuba and the US, where Wikipedia was created, have been at odds since a 1959 revolution put Fidel Castro in power.

Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times.

FOR most of Fidel Castro's 49 years in power, American policy towards him has been as inflexible as his own.

Fidel Castro, who is still the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, made no mention of his brother, or of domestic issues.

What do tennis player Goran Ivanisevic and songwriter Paul McCartney have in common with Fidel Castro? They are all left-handers.

Fidel Castro's retirement formally ends the rule of the world's longest-serving leader.

Fidel Castro established a communist government in Cuba.

Fidel Castro is alive, but no longer president.

The most deceitful - The FakeDeath worm announces the death of Fidel Castro to trick users and infect their computers.

Delegates at Cuba's Communist Party congress welcomed Fidel Castro, who's 84, with thunderous applause.

Fidel Castro in July 2006 because of surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding, and later handed over power to his brother Raul.

Fidel Castro has retired as Cuba's president, ending his 49-year rule of the Caribbean nation.

Fidel Castro is eighty-five, and has held supreme power in Cuba for half a century.

The forces wanted to oust the communist government of Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro officially retired on Tuesday.

The resignation of Cuban leader Fidel Castro may open the door for his brother, Raul, to officially take over the communist government.

The "biological solution" is the death of Fidel Castro.

Che Guevara was born in 1928 in Rosario, Argentina, in 1959 and now with Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictatorship.

Collins said that "in this way began a long relationship with the arch-enemy of Fidel Castro, the Central Intelligence Agency. "

Fidel Castro remained defiant towards the US.

In 2005 President Fidel Castro revalued the "convertible peso" by 8%. That did nothing for tourism.

Fidel castro is the Cuban people hero, but he won't run their own love.

He had just watched Fidel Castro speak at Cuba's National Assembly on August 7th.

This was 39 fewer than in 2009 and about half the number reported in 2006 when Raul Castro replaced Fidel Castro, his ailing brother.

Fidel Castro's health has improved this year.

"Barbara, are you hungry? " Fidel Castro asked after a marathon interview in Cuba before whipping up a sandwich.

later, he went to Cuba to get Fidel Castro to tape a promotional slot for CNN.

In 1963, Dr. Gustavo Mestas and his family escaped from Cuba and Fidel Castro's communist regime.

Fidel Castro broke his five-week silence to praise US President Barack Obama as a "man who is absolutely sincere" .

Cuban President Fidel Castro Denounces Forbes Report Calling Him One of World's Wealthiest Rulers

50 years of revolution in Fidel Castro's Cuba

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Granma, June 25, 2010