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In pictures: Fidel Castro's 50 years as leader of Cuba

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Published Date: 17 February 2009
ON 16 February 1959 Fidel Castro became Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
Fifty years on, with the charismatic leader still clinging on to his power despite ill health, we have selected some of the most iconic images of Castro's reign from our archive.


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  • Last Updated: 17 February 2009 12:04 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Cuba , News in pictures
 
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17/02/2009 02:56:13
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SouthernGent,

17/02/2009 03:01:02
You must be smoking some really good stuff.
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Ninian Reid,

Edinburgh 17/02/2009 08:41:36
I'm just back from an extensive tour of Cuba. Fascinating (and friendly) country, but greatly challenged - on many fronts. The country badly needs a transfusion of American vacationers !! At one point, I asked someone why Fidel's face is, by and large, absent from T-shirts (unlike the omnipresent image of comrade Che !). To my surprise, I was informed : Castro's not a hero...yet. But that will change when he has breathed his last. So, I suppose we can therefore expect a flood of suitably decorated garments sometime in the future. This isn't the first communist country I've visited over the years, but it FELT the safest. And it is certainly the most colourful - and, of course, musical - of the Soviet sera countries encountered on previous travels.
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Finnking,

Lempäälä 17/02/2009 09:41:42
"Fifty years on, with the charismatic leader still clinging on to his power"

He resigned last year.

Remove the punative and illegal trade restrictions.
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thatscottishman,

17/02/2009 11:58:59
#5 Finnking the troll

stop being so negative all the time.
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17/02/2009 20:35:35
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Conan,

Moffat 18/02/2009 07:01:11
The excellent news is that he'll be gone soon. I suspect that when he goes his island will gain some greater degree of internal freedom. It has always been interesting to me that the Cuban communists have relied exclusively on the fear of external forces in their repression of their own island peoples. As far as those freedoms are concerned ... are all Cubans free to come and go from Cuba, for example as we are to come and go from Scotland? No, obviously. One wonders how Cuba's blindered supporters here (in Scotland) would react if they were subject to the same restrictions as are imposed by force and coersion on the Cuban people by their own government. I do suppose that some would be fine with it 9those being the communist fascists), while others would no doubt have a remarkable change of heart. Bottom line - Castro was and remains nothing more than a gangster, like all communist leaders everywhere.
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A Clamper,

Edinburgh 19/02/2009 14:41:28
#9 You're well named - Conan "the Barbarian" - just like the rat you would have approved of - Batista, the CIA/Mafia backed gangster and murderer.
Viva Fidel. Viva Cuba.

 

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