The Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90, it was confirmed today.
Castro led Cuba for decades and transformed the country into one-party socialist state.
He courted controversy throughout his reign, with the United States becoming increasingly alarmed in the early 1960s with his friendly relations with the Soviet Union.
Castro became a central figure in one of the defining moments of the Cold War by allowing the Soviets to place nuclear weapons on Cuba.
It sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 leading to fears of all-out nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the US.
The CIA reportedly attempted to assassinate Castro on an incredible 638 occasions.
Here, 3m360 looks back at his life and how he survived numerous attempts on his life.