By Daily Mail Reporter and Ap PUBLISHED: 18:54 EST, 28 July 2013 | UPDATED: 05:09 EST, 29 July 2013 Cuba celebrated the 60th anniversary of the onset of its revolution Friday, and rare photos of Fidel Castro, the country's elderly former dictator, have emerged. Castro's brother Raul - the island nation's current president and one of several Communist leaders who took part in the initial failed Communist uprising - used the occasion to discuss his plans to focus the future on younger generations that have been slow to come to power. Wearing an olive-green military uniform and a broad-brimmed hat against the sun, President Raul Castro spoke to a crowd of thousands outside a military barracks still visibly pockmarked with bullet holes from the 1953 assault that is considered the beginning of the rebellion.
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Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba following the  1953 revolution that removed dictator Fulgencio Batista
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Castro's failing health has kept him out of the public eye for the last several years. Last year it was rumored that he suffered a stroke
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Castro's brother Raul is the current president of the island nation
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