Cuban-American vehicle dealer offers huge discounts to celebrate Castro’s death

His vice-president nominee Mike Pence was equally scathing, calling Castro a tyrant.

“We are the future, guided by him”.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was criticized for glowing comments he made of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro after Castro’s death was reported late Friday.

Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha condoled the death of Castro with the members standing in silence for a brief while.

A more restrained President Barack Obama, carefully promoting and working to preserve his own attempt to rebuild those ties, said history would assess Castro’s impact and that the Cuban people could reflect “with powerful emotions” about how their longtime leader influenced their country. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio hope the President Elect keeps up pressure on Raul Castro, brother of Fidel.

“In 1961, they invaded Cuba and everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world, all the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro”, Vermont Sen.

Obama last month lifted restrictions on importing Cuban cigars to the USA for personal use, part of the sixth round of eased sanctions since December 2014. USA authorities eventually sent him back. Instead he was, as Mr. Trudeau noted admiringly, Cuba’s “longest serving President”, a distinction facilitated by his never having held a free election.

Mr. Trump – a NY businessman and former reality TV star with an unconventional approach to politics – started his campaign saying he was open to lifting the long-standing embargo on trade with Cuba.

“What can I say?”

Reuters said, “his government improved the living conditions of the very poor, achieved health and literacy levels on a par with rich countries and rid Cuba of a powerful Mafia presence”.

“Our goal is the national security and national interests of the United States and, as part of that, to do everything possible through our foreign policy towards Cuba to incentivize and pave the way for the move toward democracy”, Rubio told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union”. Menendez, a Democrat, has been a leading critic of Obama’s policy, saying repression has soared and more are seeking to leave Cuba. After he secured his party’s nomination, his position shifted to a more traditional Republican position. At the same moment, Cubans are expected to begin filing through the monument to national hero Jose Marti in the centre of the plaza, where the government said they would “render homage and sign a solemn oath to carry out the concept of revolution expressed by the revolutionary leader”. “And that, I will do, unless the Castro regime meets our demands – not my demands, our demands”. “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas”, Obama said. “Speak up, Cuba”, Gross tweeted shortly after Castro’s death was announced. New hope dawns. We will stand with the oppressed Cuban people for a free and democratic Cuba. American businesses have already invested millions of dollars in Cuban-related projects. His subsequent defence, that he has always championed human rights and did so privately when he visited Cuba, merely sharpens the question of why he missed the opportunity to raise them now. “Raul Castro has more blood on his hands than Fidel did”.

“Fidel was a friend who at a hard moment was with my family, with my father, and made it possible for me to return to my father, to return to Cuba”, he said.

Castro cobbled revolutionary groups together into the new Cuban Communist Party, with him as first secretary.