The best Fidel Castro moments

May 13, 2017

By Talia Ralph

Cuban Ambassador to Russia Juan Valdes Figueroa (R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) stand next to the Russian edition of the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s two-volume memoirs during the book presentation in Moscow, on October 17, 2011.
Natalia Kolesnikova

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