Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro, center, questions a man charged with banditry as Celia Sanchez looks on in the background during a trial held in the guerrillas' base in the Cuban mountain range of Sierra Maestra in this 1958 file photo. For a quarter century fellow revolutionary Celia Sanchez was Castro's confidante and closest aide before dying of cancer in 1980. Castro has defiantly forged a Communist state in America's backyard and has weathered the hostility of every U.S. administration since Eisenhower. View photo »
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, left, is embraced by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 1960. View photo »
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, lower right, sits inside a tank near Playa Giron, Cuba, during the Bay of Pigs invasion, in this April 17, 1961. The CIA's own assessment of its 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle is ignorance, incompetence and arrogance. The top secret document, released by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act request late February 1998, criticized almost every aspect of the CIA s handling of the invasion. View photo »
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro looks over the Sierra Maestro mountains as he revisits the area where his revolution started in this June 1962 photo in Cuba. View photo »
Fidel Castro exhales cigar smoke during a 1985 interview at the presidential palace in Havana. Castro, 81, resigned as Cuba's president today, citing his health. View photo »
Cuban President Fidel Castro salutes during a speech in Havana, Cuba in this May 20, 2005. View photo »
Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures as he addresses a crowd of Latin American students gathered in Pedernales, in Holguin province, Cuba, for the anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks, at the July 26, 2006 event. View photo »
President Fidel Castro speaks in Havana in this Feb. 3, 2006. View photo »
