Fidel Castro, revolutionary leader who remade Cuba as a socialist state, dies at 90

The life of Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

Former Cuban political leader Fidel Castro dies at 90.

By Kevin Sullivan and J.Y. Smith November 26 at 2:27 PM

Fidel Castro, who led a Cuban revolution that made his Caribbean island a potent symbol of the 20th-century ideological and economic divisions, and whose embrace of communism and the former Soviet Union put the world at the risk of nuclear war, died Nov. 25. He was 90.

Fidel Castro, left, has a shipboard conference with Capt. Alfred Boerum, skipper of the mercy ship African Pilot, and E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., right, after the boat docked in Havana on Dec. 27, 1962. (Joe McGowan Jr./Associated Press)

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