Fidel Castro's Life in Pictures
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Fidel Castro transferred into the Jesuit-run El Colegio de Belén in Havana. Pictured here in his 1945 high school yearbook Fidel Castro (at the far right): "Our floral offering November 27 to slain revolutionary students.”