Cubans hold commemoration for Fidel Castro

Xi said China will work more closely with the Cuban comrades to carry forward the friendly relationship between the two parties as well as the two nations to fulfill Fidel Castro’s will.

Due to their common enmity toward the United States and similar authoritarian power structures, Cuba and North Korea had maintained generally close diplomatic ties throughout the years. “He did so in 2008”.

Castro retired from politics in 2008 over failing health, and his brother, Raul succeeded him as President of Cuba.

Portes said the brothers had different views when it came to the economy and government. “Now he’s gone and they retrace that route, and the Cubans of this era have a chance to say goodbye”, William LeoGrande, an American University professor of Latin American politics, told AP.

HAVANA (AP) – Surrounded by white roses and drawn by a green military jeep, Fidel Castro’s ashes began a more than 500-mile (800-kilometer) journey on Wednesday across the country he ruled for almost 50 years.

An editor of a Hispanic newspaper La Guia Gratuita in West Palm Beach, Mirta Luaces said Fidel Castro’s death is still significant until nothing has changed. “I want her to see and understand who Fidel was and what she can do to help the revolution continue”, said Yanet Ricardo, as she was about to enter the memorial, with her child in her arms.

Earnest told reporters that such a reversal would be anything other than an emotional reaction on the part of some Cuban-Americans who want to see the island remain frozen out of the global community.

“Mr. Rhodes has played a leading role in crafting the normalization policy that President Obama announced about two years ago”, Earnest said, calling Rhodes the “principal interlocutor” with the Cuban government.

And although Cuban Americans in Miami backed Donald Trump for president, this Cuban dissident says the real estate mogul’s victory is a setback for democracy.

Obama lifted restrictions on travel to Cuba and normalized relations as much as he could.

Trump expressed hope that Castro’s death would mark a “move away from the horrors” toward a future where Cubans live in freedom.

“If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S.as a whole, I will terminate deal”, Trump said in a Twitter post. “Castro represented a sense that gave them pride”.

Tens of thousands of Cubans lined the path of the funeral procession, which retraced the path of Castro’s triumphant march into Havana almost six decades ago.

Huerta’s family still lives on the island, and she said her mother reports widespread feelings of loss in light of Castro’s death.

The ashes of the 90-year-old former president did not appear to be on display inside the monument.