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Cuban revolutionary icon and former leader, Fidel Castro, entering parliament to applause2. Zoom in on audience clapping  Havana - August 12, 20103. Pan from banner reading (in Spanish) \"Long Live Fidel and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHavana - 1 August , 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Cuban revolutionary icon and former leader, Fidel Castro, entering parliament to applause\u003cbr/\u003e2. Zoom in on audience clapping  \u003cbr/\u003eHavana - August 12, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan from banner reading (in Spanish) \"Long Live Fidel and Raul\" to promenade \u003cbr/\u003e4. Various shots of children playing in front of former presidential palace \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vox Pop, Jorge Magueira, Resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"His birthday is another anniversary of the Commander-in Chief's life. He's not only a national figure, but an international one as well. Not because of his direction or power, but because he is far-sighted enough to see the problems the world is facing in terms of climate, politics, and confrontations between states.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various shots of books with images of Fidel Castro on cover \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of book stall\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vox Pop, Jose Ruiz, Resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"For us he's the leader of the Cuban Revolution and we are happy he's turning 84 years old. He has fought against all his illnesses and up to now has come out ahead.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot cars passing in front of Havana's Capitol Building\u003cbr/\u003eHavana - 2 August, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various shots of Fidel Castro at signing of his most recent book \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Exact dates unknwon\u003cbr/\u003e11. FILE photo showing Fidel Castro (on left) and his brothers Raul Castro (in centre) and Ramon Castro (on right) when they were children\u003cbr/\u003e12. FILE photo showing Fidel (on far left) with his family\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Exact location and date unknown - 1960\u003cbr/\u003e13. FILE photo of Fidel and Raul Castro\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Sierra Maestra - 1958\u003cbr/\u003e14. Fidel Castro with fellow revolutionaries Haydee Santamaria and Celia Sanchez\u003cbr/\u003e15. Fidel Castro writing ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e16. Fidel Castro talking with farmers ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Havana -1961\u003cbr/\u003e17. Fidel Castro talking with fellow revolutionary Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara\u003cbr/\u003eLong-time Cuban revolutionary icon, Fidel Castro, turns 84 years old on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eFidel Castro Ruz was born in Biran, a small town in eastern Cuba, where his Spanish immigrant father ran a prosperous plantation. \u003cbr/\u003eHis official birthday is August 13, 1926, although some say he was born a year later.\u003cbr/\u003eNo major public celebrations of Castro's birthday were announced, and there was no expectation that he would make a public appearance more than four years after he announced he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and was temporarily ceding power to his brother Raul, who is now 79.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the years since he was last seen in public, general elections were held and Cuba now has a new president for the first time in 48 years.\u003cbr/\u003eA lively and healthy-looking Fidel Castro appealed to US President Barack Obama to prevent a global nuclear war in an emphatic speech last Saturday that marked his first official government appearance since the surgery four years ago.\u003cbr/\u003eCastro's speech before the Cuban parliament, along with other numerous recent public appearances, raised questions about how much he will resume a leadership role.\u003cbr/\u003eAround Havana, billboards or posters with images of the revolutionary hero were once common place. \u003cbr/\u003eNow they are few and far between.\u003cbr/\u003eFor the past four years, Fidel Castro's public role has been relegated to writing editorials once or twice a week which are published on official government websites and in the government newspapers. \u003cbr/\u003eTalk of Castro's mortality was long taboo on the island, but that ended June 23, 2001, when he fainted during a speech in the sun. \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough Castro quickly returned to the stage, many Cubans understood for the first time that their leader was simply human.\u003cbr/\u003eCastro shattered a kneecap and broke an arm when he fell after a speech on October 20, 2004, but typically laughed off rumours about his health and recovered from that fall amazingly fast.\u003cbr/\u003eCubans have cultivated a myth over the last half-century that Fidel Castro is invincible, but in recent times have had to face the reality that their leader is an elderly man who will someday die.\u003cbr/\u003eSince Castro announced his illness, the country has calmly and quietly gone about its business, waiting for more news about his condition and wondering what the future holds.\u003cbr/\u003eFidel Castro blamed his separation from power on an unspecified intestinal problem brought on by a heavy work schedule and lack of rest.\u003cbr/\u003eEven when well, Castro traditionally has celebrated his birthday in a low-key manner, often simply sharing a cake with Cuban school children.\u003cbr/\u003eLife has changed little in Cuba in more than four years since the younger Castro assumed leadership of government on July 31, 2006 and later won the election in February of 2008. \u003cbr/\u003eMany believe Raul is more likely than Fidel to undertake modest economic reforms in the island's communist-run system, but no major changes are expected while the elder Castro is still alive.\u003cbr/\u003eFidel Castro launched his revolutionary fight with a July 26, 1953 attack on a military barracks in the eastern city of Santiago. He was arrested and freed under an amnesty. \u003cbr/\u003eHe travelled to Mexico to form a rebel army, and returned to Cuba with his followers aboard a small yacht.\u003cbr/\u003eMost were killed or captured, but Castro and a small group escaped into the eastern mountains to establish a rebel stronghold and seized power when dictator Fulgencio Batista fled New Year's Day 1959.\u003cbr/\u003eCastro emerged as head of the new government and quickly gained nearly absolute power. \u003cbr/\u003eAll American businesses were eventually expropriated and Cuba was declared a socialist state in April 1961, on the eve of the disastrous US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. \u003cbr/\u003eThe United States cut all trade with Cuba as the island allied with the Soviet Union, leading to the October 1962 missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. \u003cbr/\u003eFor three decades, Cuba was a Soviet ally and remained alienated from the United States after Eastern communism 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