Updated: Nov. 26, 2016 at 8:36 AM

Fidel Castro over the years (28 images)

Fidel Castro, the former leader of Cuba who led a communist revolution on the island nation, died Friday, state-run media reported. He was 90. The following is a look back at Fidel Castro's 45 years as the leader of Cuba, from the UPI archives.

Fidel Castro holds up a photo during a television appearance on June 10, 1962. Castro claims the picture shows a U.S. spy plane on a photo reconnaissance mission over the Soviet freighter "Dolinsk" ten miles off the northern coast of Cuba on May 7, 1962. UPI file photo.

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Cuban President Fidel Castro (C), poses with Konstantin Chernenko (L) and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev (R) in Moscow in a February 26, 1981 file photo. UPI file photo.

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Fidel Castro (2nd L) is pictured with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (2nd R) in Moscow on April 30, 1963. Also pictured are Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev (L) and Secretary of the National Leadership of the United Party of Socialist Revolution Emilo A. Navarro (R). UPI file photo.

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Cuban President Fidel Castro is pictured in a January 11, 1985 file photo in Timal, Nicaragua where he was addressing Sandinista leaders and Cuban workers at Central America's largest sugar plantation. Castro donated materials and labor to the refiniery.. UPI file photo.

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