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IMAGO International History, Archive, Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, Prime Minister Fidel Castro

Feb 5, 2026

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  • Castro und Sport 1. November 1962 - Havanna, Kuba - Der kubanische Revolutionsführer FIDEL CASTRO trägt revolutionäre Kampfmontur und Baskenmütze, während er mit einer brasilianischen Basketballmannschaft spricht, die eine kubanische Mannschaft besiegt hat. Havana Cuba *** Castro and Sport 1 November 1962 Havana, Cuba the Cuban Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro carries Revolutionaries Kampfmontur and Beret, during he with a Brazilian Basketball team speaks, the a Cuban Team defeated has Havana Cuba Copyright: xUnitedxArchivesx xkpaxKeystonex 19621101_sha_k09_770
  • Kubanische kommunistische Propaganda 2. Februar 1962 - Havanna, Kuba - Propaganda der kommunistischen Partei Kubas mit einem Zitat von Castro. Havana Cuba *** Cuban communist Propaganda 2 February 1962 Havana, Cuba Propaganda the communist Party Cuba with a Quote from Castro Havana Cuba Copyright: xUnitedxArchivesx xkpaxKeystonex 19620202_sha_k09_767 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!
  • Speech of Fidel Castro during which he explains the agreements made with Nikita Khrushchev, 1962 (photo) XRH1701881 Speech of Fidel Castro during which he explains the agreements made with Nikita Khrushchev, 1962 (photo) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: October, 30 1962 (at time of cuban missile crisis)). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 1701881
  • CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962. This hurts me more than it hurts you. Cartoon comment on the Cuban Missile Crisis; Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as a dentist, removing missiles from the mouth of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Cartoon by Edmund Valtman, 30 October 1962. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0622499
  • Speech of Fidel Castro in La Havana, Cuba during which he explains the agreements made with NikitaKhroushtchev and USSR October, 30 1962 (at time of cuban missile crisis) 1707653 Speech of Fidel Castro in La Havana, Cuba during which he explains the agreements made with NikitaKhroushtchev and USSR October, 30 1962 (at time of cuban missile crisis) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Speech of Fidel Castro in La Havana, Cuba during which he explains the agreements made with NikitaKhroushtchev and USSR october, 30 1962 (at time of cuban missile crisis)). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 1707653
  • Fidel Castro arrives at Washington airport, 1959 (b w photo) 1766078 Fidel Castro arrives at Washington airport, 1959 (b w photo) by Leffler, Warren K. (1926-2014); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016) Cuban politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1959-76, President 1976-2008. He visited the US at the invitation of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, four months after leading the Cuban revolution. He resigned from the Central Committe of the Communist Party of Cuba in 2011.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 1766078
  • Fidel Castro at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 1960 (b w photo) 1766067 Fidel Castro at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 1960 (b w photo) by Leffler, Warren K. (1926-2014); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016) Cuban politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1959-76, President 1976-2008. He resigned from the Central Committe of the Communist Party of Cuba in 2011. ). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 1766067
  • October, 1963. Havana, Cuba. Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Rus (L front) talks to the world s first female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who presented her portrait to F. Castro. The exact date of the photograph is unknown. Valentin Cheredintsev TASS 17520089
  • USSR. 1962. An award winning shot Freedom or death! by TASS news photographer Valentin Sobolev, which was on display as a part of the 1962 All-Union art photography exhibition Seven-Year Plan put to action . TASS 334559
  • Havana, Cuba. December, 1963-January, 1964. Prime minister of Cuba Fidel Castro talks to Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikolai Podgorny (R-L front). The exact date of the photograph is unknown. Valentin Sobolev TASS 32435471
  • Havana, Cuba. December, 1963-January, 1964. Prime minister of Cuba Fidel Castro (L) talks to Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikolai Podgorny. The exact date of the photograph is unknown. Valentin Sobolev TASS 32435384
  • Cuba. December, 1963-January, 1964. Prime minister of Cuba Fidel Castro and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikolai Podgorny (L-R front) visit a farm. The exact date and location of the photograph is unknown. Valentin Sobolev TASS 32435517
  • Cuba. December, 1963-January, 1964. Prime minister of Cuba Fidel Castro (2nd L front) and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikolai Podgorny (R) visit a cattle farm and try milk. The exact date and location of the photograph is unknown. Valentin Sobolev TASS 32435514
  • Cuba. December, 1963-January, 1964. Prime minister of Cuba Fidel Castro talks to Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikolai Podgorny (R-L front). The exact date and location of the photograph is unknown. Valentin Sobolev TASS 32435383
  • SCANPIX SWEDEN, 1963. Nikita Chrusjtjov och Fidel Castro. Chrusjtjov (t.h.) och Castro vid sjön Ritsa i Kaukasusbergen efter Cubakrisen 1963. Sitter bada pa en stenmur med skog i bakgrunden. Politiker x20360x *** SCANPIX SWEDEN, 1963 Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro Khrushchev right and Castro at Lake Ritsa in the Caucasus Mountains after the Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Sitting swimming on a stone wall with a forest in the background Politicians x20360x Copyright: xTTx 20360
  • Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban political leader and former communist revolutionary.<br ><br > As the primary leader of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then as the President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of Council of Ministers of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party s foundation in 1961. Supplier:xCPAxMediaxCo.xLtd. 1060_05_CPA0033517
  • Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz ( born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban political leader and former communist revolutionary. As the primary leader of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then as the President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of Council of Ministers of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party s foundation in 1961. Supplier:xCPAxMediaxCo.xLtd. 1060_05_CPA0007553
  • Sept 1960 - New York, New York, USA - Soviet leader NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV and Cuban FIDEL CASTRO during a meeting to the United Nations. New York U.S.A. - ZUMAk09_ 19610901_jes_k09_580 Copyright: xKEYSTONExPicturesx
  • SOVIET PRIME MINISTER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV WITH CUBAN PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO IN MOSCOW SIGN A AGREEMENT COMMUNIQUE ; 26 MAY 1963, Copyright: Topfoto UnitedArchivesIPU457386
  • SOVIET PRIME MINISTER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV WITH CUBAN PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO IN MOSCOW ; 25 MAY 1963, Copyright: Topfoto UnitedArchivesIPU457361
  • SOVIET PRIME MINISTER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV WITH CUBAN PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO IN MOSCOW ; 23 MAY 1963, Copyright: Topfoto UnitedArchivesIPU457258
  • FIDEL ALEJANDRO CASTRO RUZ (August 13, 1926 - November 25, 2016), commonly known as Fidel Castro, was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a MarxistnLeninist and Cuban nationalist, served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms implemented throughout society. Castro was a controversial and divisive world figure. Supporters laud him as a champion of socialism, anti-imperialism, and humanitarianism, whose revolutionary regime secured Cuba s independence from American imperialism. Conversely, critics view him as a totalitarian dictator whose administration oversaw multiple human-rights abuses, an exod - ZUMAm30_ 19850110_sha_m30_659
  • File - Cuban Politician and Revolutionary FIDEL CASTRO (August 13, 1926 - November 25, 2016) has died at the age of 90, Cuban state television announced on Saturday, ending an era for the country and Latin America. Pictured: May 07, 1962; Moscow, Russia; Cuban Prime Minister FIDEL CASTRO who is on a visit to Russia , recently spent a day out in the woods near Moscow with Mr. NIKITA KRUSCHEV. Moscow Russia - ZUMAk09_ 20161125_sha_k09_017
  • Jan. 01, 1963 - Castro With The Parents Of The Bay Of Pigs Prisoners, Released After A deal With The Americans For 63 Million dollars. Fidel Castro the pro-communist leader of Cub who recently agreed to the release of the prisoners held by Cuban Govt after the abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 met some of the parents of the American prisoners. Photo shows Fidel Castro talks with some of the parets of the American prisoners. - ZUMAk09
  • FILE - Ahmed Ben Bella, (December 25, 1918 - April 11, 2012) who was a key member in the Algerian revolution and became the first president of Algeria in 1962, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, local APS news agency reported. PHOTO: Oct. 23, 1962 - Havana, Cuba - Cuban revolutionary leader who led his country from January 1959 until his retirement in February 2008, FIDEL CASTRO transformed Cuba into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. PICTURED: Algerian president AHMED BEN BELLA (center) while visiting Cuba, next to CASTRO (left) and Cuba s president OSVALDO DORTICOS. Havana Cuba - ZUMAk09
  • (130814) -- HAVANA (Xinhua) -- Archive image taken on Dec. 22, 1961, shows former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, waves to the crowd in Havana, Cuba. Cuba celebrated the 87th birthday of its revolution leader Fidel Castro Tuesday with concerts, book presentations and other press highlights. (Xinhua Roberto Chile Archive) (da) CUBA-HAVANA-POLITICS-CASTRO
  • Fidel Castro begins a rebellion against G Batista 1953. The Cuban Communist politician, prime minister 1959-76 and president from 1976. He led two unsuccessful coups agains the right wing Batista regime and led the revolution that overthrew the dictator 1959. From 1979 he was also president of the nonaligned movement, although promoting the line of the USSR which subsidised his regime. Of wealthy parentage, Castro was educated at Jesuit schools and, after studying law at the University of Havana, he gained a reputation through his work for poor clients. He opposed the Batista dictatorship, and took part in an unsuccessful attack on the army barracks at Santiago de Cuba 1953. After some time in exile in the USA and Mexico, Castro attempted a secret landing in Cuba 1956 in which all but 11 of his supporters were killed. He eventually gathered an army of over 5000 which overthrew Bat UnitedArchives01004444
  • 17 OCTOBER 1962 CUBAN LEADER, FIDEL CASTRO WELCOMES ALGERIAN PREMIER, AHMED BEN BELLA ON HIS ARRIVAL FOR A TWO DAY STATE VISIT TO HAVANA, CUBA. UnitedArchives00511249