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Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Fidel Castro as the "symbol of an era," the Kremlin said in a statement Saturday. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone said Mr Castro was an "absolute giant of the 20th century", and blamed the US for the restrictions on civil liberties under his leadership.
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The Cuban community in Miami celebrates the announcement that Fidel Castro died in front of La Carreta Restaurant, early Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Miami. Within half an hour of the Cuban governmenta sA A s official announcement that former President Fidel Castro had died, Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, at age 90, Miamia sA A s Little Havana teemed with life - and cheers.
People flooded the streets of Miami early Saturday morning after the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro was announced. In an interview with NBC Miami, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida called it "an opportunity to begin a new chapter of freedom and democracy," noting that people in Cuba would not be allowed to openly show such emotion.
Famed for his rumpled olive fatigues, straggly beard and the cigars he reluctantly gave up for health reasons, Fidel Castro kept a tight clamp on dissent at home -- August 13, 1926: Castro is born in Biran, eastern Cuba, the third of seven children, son of a Spanish immigrant landowner and a Cuban mother who had been the family housekeeper. A fine student, Fidel was sent away from the farm to be schooled by Jesuits in Santiago.
Fidel Castro's rule of nearly five decades split many a Cuban family between exile and solidarity with the communist revolution - including his own. While brother Raul was his closest confidant and successor as president, sister Juana, exiled in south Florida, called Fidel a "monster" to whom she hadn't spoken in more than four decades.
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Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and wife Margaret and Cuban President Fidel Castro listen to the national anthems of both countries after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana, Cuba, Jan.26, 1976. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and wife Margaret and Cuban President Fidel Castro listen to the national anthems of both countries after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana, Cuba, Jan.26, 1976.
Cuban President Fidel Castro holds baby Michel as Pierre and Margaret Trudeau look on during their state visit to Cuba in this Jan., 1976, photo. Cuban President Fidel Castro holds baby Michel as Pierre and Margaret Trudeau look on during their state visit to Cuba in this Jan., 1976, photo.
The United States abstained for the first time in 25 years Wednesday on a U.N. resolution condemning America's economic embargo against Cuba, a measure it had always vehemently opposed. The U.S. was joined in abstaining by Israel, the only other country to vote against the embargo resolution in the General Assembly last year.
Barack Obama will soon be gone, banished to a smaller house down the street from the mosque, and peace, alas, will not be upon him. The anti-war president leaves behind a world with more war than it had when he first moved into the White House.
Francis Suarez comes from a long line of civic and political leaders who have formed the Republican bedrock in south Florida's Cuban community for a half-century. Yet the 38-year-old Miami city commissioner hasn't decided whether he will vote for his party's presidential nominee.
Francis Suarez comes from a long line of civic and political leaders who have formed the Republican bedrock in south Florida's Cuban community for a half-century. Yet the 38-year-old Miami city commissioner hasn't decided whether he will vote for his party's presidential nominee.
With the harsh sun of Santiago de Cuba reflected on his face and a few pounds lighter than his normal weight, one of the island's youngest dissidents, Carlos Amel Oliva, recently traveled to Miami. His goal: To thank exiles for the support he received during his four weeks on a hunger strike to demand that the Raul Castro government respect the human rights of the island's 11 million people.
Renting Fidel Castro's yacht will be the new publicity backdrop that will be the next thing to enter the arena in order to convert the "Acuarama II," as it is named, into an appetizing bait. For some time, the auto rental business, Grancar, has been renting a couple of replicas of his legendary Russian limousine; unpublished photos of the ex- Comandante en Jefe are sold in various auctions as collection pieces, and now, exceeding all imagination and surpassing a whole flotilla of boats designed for the good life, the new boat bamboozle that the tourist group Gaviota will offer emerges: a sophisticated trip in the boat of the modest, humble and simple leader, Fidel.
Fidel Castro thanked Cubans for their well-wishes on his 90th birthday and criticized President Barack Obama in a lengthy letter published in state media. He appeared but did not speak at a gala in his honor broadcast on state television.
Fidel Castro thanked Cubans for their well-wishes on his 90th birthday and criticized President Barack Obama in a lengthy letter published in state media. He appeared but did not speak at a gala in his honor broadcast on state television Saturday evening.
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro, center right, attends a gala for his 90th birthday accompanied by his brother and current President Raul, center left, and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, right, at the 'Karl Marx' theater in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. Cuba's former President Fidel Castro attends a gala for his 90th birthday at the 'Karl Marx' theater in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016.