Fidel Castro 90th birthday

Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro speaks with prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion at the sports stadium in Havana, Cuba in April 1961.

Castro with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at the United Nations.   (Marty Lederhandler / Associated Press)

Castro during an interview at his presidential palace in Havana.  (Charles Tasnadi / Associated Press)

Castro with Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega at the opening of a sugar processing plant in the Central American country. Cuban workers built the project.  (Arturo Robles / Associated Press)

2011: Castro at the Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana, during which he officially relinquished his position as head of the party.

Castro consults with his brother Raul during a meeting of the Cuban parliament. Castro, the only leader Cuba had known for nearly five decades, would hand the reins of power to his brother after undergoing intestinal surgery in July 2006.   (Adalberto Roque / AFP/Getty Images)

Castro and former President Carter attend funeral services for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Montreal.  (Jacques Boissinot / Associated Press)

A poster of Fidel Castro is seen on a wall in Havana on Aug. 13, 2016, during celebrations for his 90th birthday.

Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) and his brother Raul, Minister of the Revoutionary Armed Forces, chat December 23, 2003 in Havana, during the last meeting of the Cuban Parliament.