Castro’s death end of era, but oppression likely to continue

Fidel Castro's death certainly is the end of an era, that of the cult of personality that kept Cubans oppressed and without economic opportunity for decades. For more than half a century, Castro ran Cuba as a communist enclave in the new world.

History will judge Fidel Castro’s era, Obama saysWorld leaders react…

The death of Fidel Castro was long in coming, and so world reaction was somber and introspective from foes and friends alike. President Barack Obama alluded to both the history of animosity between the United States and Cuba and the advent of change in those relations.