World leaders send condolences after Fidel Castro’s death

And he doesn’t expect Fidel Castro’s death to have an immediate impact on that.

Simultaneously, at thousands of locations around Cuba, people have been invited to sign a solemn oath to fulfill the “concept of Revolution”, as expressed by Castro. “We have lived without them and we will keep living”, Rodriguez Oliva added.

Raul Castro has enacted gradual economic reforms.

In 2014, Raul Castro announced a diplomatic detente with Obama, who has lifted some trade barriers.

The longtime dictator of Cuba died Thursday at the age of 90.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro’s death at age 90 last Friday has not changed the billionaire NY real estate developer’s stance on policy toward Havana, Miller said.

Yet few leaders from the world’s major powers are heading to the Caribbean island, with many sending second tier officials instead to pay their respects to a man who built a Communist state on the doorstep of the United States.

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.

“At the same time, it’s important to note that they have opened up so much recently, and there’s such great interest from South Americans, Asians, Europeans to invest in the island that the reversal of the “deal” would essentially penalize Americans who have invested there – and even members of the Cuban-American community who have invested there”.

The tribute will continue until Tuesday noon local time.

But several Western leaders, including Obama, are not coming. The caravan that will start carrying Castro’s ashes back to Santiago, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, .

(AP Photo, File). FILE – In this January 3, 1959 file photo, a soldier with Fidel Castro’s rebel forces keeps watch from a high building overlooking Havana, Cuba as the city awaits Castro’s arrival from Santiago.

Like the government, the couple blames the country’s economic troubles on the decades-old USA embargo. “We saw a lot of people that were in a lot of pain and we were trying to be respectful of that”, said McCarthy. Bill Clinton of Arkansas and George W. Bush of Texas, dares me to wonder which country’s policies have been most damaging to its citizens and to the world.

Brazilian President Michel Temer was also not attending.

“If the US continues to limit trade (with Cuba), and the European Union, China and Russian Federation continue to expand trade, there will be a smaller piece of cake left for USA companies”, said Jose Maria Vinales Camallonga, director of International Operations at Lupicinio, a Spanish law firm that represents large corporations in their Cuba dealings.

China and Iran were sending vice presidents while Spain will be represented by former king Juan Carlos, Germany by former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and France by a diplomat. Starting Nov. 30, 2016 Castro’s ashes.

Doctors in white jackets, nurses in uniform, soldiers, students and teachers, all of them speaking in the same hushed tones, careful to behave with dignity under the watchful eye of the state security officers.

His critics have also said his frequent visits to the Far East were draining the cash-strapped country, urging Mugabe to retire and give way to a younger and agile leader.