Cuba in national mourning for late leader

“Fifty-eight years later, Castro dies on Black Friday, which is essentially the most emblematic day for capitalism in the Western world”, said ophthalmologist Dr. Oscar Minoso.

As I look back at my childhood growing up in Little Havana, I believed there was nothing I could not achieve, and I always strived to make my family proud because I knew they had sacrificed so much so that I could have the opportunities that they had to give up. Honking and strains of salsa music from vehicle stereos echoed against stucco buildings, and fireworks lit up the humid night sky.

Former Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer also weighed in, posting a photo of a meeting with the Cuban leader to his Facebook page.

Cruz argued in a National Review op-ed that Castro’s death would not bring “material change in Cuba”. That was no surprise. Many Cubans fled the island after 1959, soon after Castro took over as the country’s president, and settled in Miami, New Jersey and elsewhere. Many of these were loyalists of President Fulgencio Batista, who had been overthrown by Castro’s revolution.

Lee is widely regarded as one of the most liberal members of the U.S. House.

When Gomez visited the country on his most recent of three humanitarian trips he has organized, his cousins were not allowed into the resort where he stayed with his wife, children and grandchildren. They are second generation Cuban Americans, who continue to strike a balance between the customs of their grandparents as both Cubans and Americans.

The visit, tacked on to the end of a USA tour that included stops in Boston and NY, took place only four months after Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista to ascend to power.

Living by the slogan “socialism or death”, Castro kept the faith to the end, even as the Cold War came and went.

This time, though, it was real.

The European Commission president described Castro as “one of the revolutionary figures of the 20th century” and said his legacy “will be judged by history”.

May his soul rest in peace!

Castro had declared: “Anyone who wants to leave Cuba can do so”. That reaction comes from a place of privilege, he said. “His brother will now go down, too”. However, it now feels less that he is opening the country up than the country and its people are beginning to burst free. In his writings on his blog, Prieto never capitalized Castro’s name.

Cemeteries in South Florida abound with the remains of those who fiercely wished Castro had died before them.

“The next president can reverse them, and that I will do unless the Castro regime meets our demands”, Trump told supporters.

The news was nearly unbelievable, said Oscar Miro, a 22-year-old who came to the United States 10 years ago. “My parents came here 60 years ago”. In 1976, the senior Trudeau became the first North Atlantic Treaty Organisation leader to visit Cuba since its revolution, at one point exhorting “Viva Castro!”

“We have to keep his image alive, as if he were with us, very close to us”, del Conde said.

Miro, who wore a Cuban flag like a cape, was caught off guard by the Cuban government’s public admission that Castro, icon of a Communist revolution that disrupted countless lives, was dead.