PHOTOS: Fidel Castro Through The Years

July 5, 1968: Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, presents a photograph in which General Ovando Candia and other men of the Bolivian Army get drunk to celebrate the murder of Che Guevara, the Latin American revolutionary. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks duri

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during the broadcasting of a TV program on Jan. 22, 2006 in Havana. Castro called the citizens to take part Tuesday in a massive rally to protest in front of the US government representation against the alleged liberation of anti-Castro Luis Posada Carriles. AFP PHOTO/AIN-Ismael FRANCISCO (Photo credit should read ISMAEL FRANCISCO/AFP/Getty Images)

Fidel Castro at May Day Parade

Fidel Castro observes the May Day parade at the Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba May 1, 1998. (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)

Fidel Castro Speaks In Holguin

Fidel Castro speaks during a political rally July 26, 2006 in Holguin, Cuba on the day when Cuba celebrates the anniversary of Castro's attack on the Monacada barracks in 1953. (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)

Fidel Castro Speaks In Holguin

Fidel Castro speaks during a political rally July 26, 2006 in Holguin, Cuba on the day when Cuba celebrates the anniversary of Castro's attack on the Monacada barracks in 1953. (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)

Fidel Castro Delivers Monacada Speech

Fidel Castro addresses the crowd July 26, 1999 celebrating the 46th anniversary of the Moncada assault, led by Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953. (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)

Che Guevara, his daughter Aleida and Fidel Castro, Photograph, Around 1963

Che Guevara, his daughter Aleida and Fidel Castro, Photograph, Around 1963 (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Che Guevara, dessen Tochter Aleida und Fidel Castro, Photographie, Um 1963]

Cuban Cigar

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro (left) lights his cigar while Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-1967) looks on in the early days of their guerrilla campaign in the Sierra Maestra Mountains of Cuba, circa 1956. Castro wears a military uniform while Guevara wears fatigues and a beret. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fidel Castro Receives Lula

In this handout image provided by the Brazlian Presidency, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Fidel Castro (R) speaks with Brazil?s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) during a private meeting on February 24, 2010 in Havana, Cuba. Lula is on a two day visit to Cuba after having attended the Summit of the Group of Rio states in Mexico. (Photo by Ricardo Stuckert/Brazlian Presidency via Getty Images)

Pope Benedict XVI Makes First Visit To Cuba

Pope Benedict XVI meets with former Cuban President Fidel Castro (R) at the Vatican embassy on March 29, 2012 in Havana, Cuba. The Pope is finishing up his first trip to Cuba, fourteen years after Pope John Paul II visited the communist country. (Photo by L'Osservatore Romano Vatican-Pool/Getty Images)

BIO-CASTRO-SADDAM HUSSEIN

Iraqi vice-president Saddam Hussein (C), stands with Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) and Defense minister General Raul Castro (R), 30 January 1979 in Havana, during his visit to Cuba. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

CUBA-US-CASTRO-CARTER

Former President Jimmy Carter (L) shakes hands with Cuban President Fidel Castro 12 May, 2002, at the State Council in Havana, where Castro, Carter and their respective delegations met for a working meeting. Carter is on a five-day visit to Cuba, invited by Castro. (Photo by Adalberto ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)