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In a file photo Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, left, is embraced by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 1960.
Cuba's President Fidel Castro (R) and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (L) exchange documents during a treaty signing ceremony in Havana in this April 4, 1989 file photo.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Cuba's President Fidel Castro stand side by side during Putin's official welcoming ceremony outside Havana's Palace of the Revolution in this December 14, 2000 file photo.
Cuba's leader Fidel Castro (R) stops to read his watch during Pope John Paul II's arrival ceremony at Jose Marti Airport in this January 21, 1998 file photo.
Cuba's President Fidel Castro waves a Cuban flag at the May Day parade at Havana's Revolution Square in this May 1, 2005 file photo.
Cuba's President Fidel Castro (C) sits in between Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) and Bolivia's President Evo Morales during an event on Havana's Revolution Square in this April 29, 2006 file photo.
China's President Jiang Zemin (L) waves to the press after he was met by Cuba's President Fidel Castro at Havana's Jose Marti airport in this April 12, 2001 file photo.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (L) 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 file photo.
Cuba's President Fidel Castro (L) talks to his French counterpart Francois Mitterrand at the Elysee Palace in Paris in this March 13, 1995 file photo.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela (L) hugs Cuba's President Fidel Castro during a visit to Mandela's home in Houghton, Johannesburg in this September 2, 2001 file photo.
In a file photo Cuba's President Fidel Castro laughs after mistakenly saying Uruguay instead of Paraguay during his speech before a hand drawn poster of Cuban poet Jose Marti in Asuncion, Paraguay on Saturday Aug.16, 2003.
In a file photo Fidel Castro exhales cigar smoke during a March 1985 interview at his presidential palace in Havana.
In a file photo Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro is shown in Havana in this 1959 photo after he was told that his Army Chief Maj. Camilo Cienfuegos was still missing as Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos, listens at left.
In a file 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.
File picture taken in the early 1960s of Cuban Revolution leaders Fidel Castro (R) and Che Guevara in Havana.