Cuban Dissidents Cancel Weekly March Following Castro’s Death

Through the intercession of the Mary, may “the Cuban people know how to traverse that narrow road between fear which gives in to evil and violence, which under the illusion of fighting evil only makes it worse”, he added.

But “I don’t think the death of Castro will alter the pace of the reform”, said López-Levy, a Cuba expert and lecturer in political science at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.

President Raul Castro, Fidel’s younger brother, is 85. “What Trump is also saying is he just objects to the way we re-engaged diplomatic relations with Cuba in the last several years in this administration because we got nothing in return”. The attire suggested that at least some of Miami’s Cuban-Americans are counting on President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20, to play a crucial role in shaping USA policy with Cuba in the post-Fidel era.

But Julie Peñate, a 15-year-old student who was at the Versailles with her family, spoke of Castro’s death in terms of the future.

After the stunned commotion surrounding Saturday’s announcement that Castro had died at age 90, Sunday was set to be a day of calm preparations, with no official activities planned. -Cuban relations shouldn’t be defined “by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends”.

Trump didn’t pass off his evaluation to the historians. Both nations have opened embassies and scheduled flights from the United States to Cuba have resumed after decades.

In a statement on Saturday that contrasted sharply with Obama’s, Trump said Castro was a “brutal dictator” who oppressed his own people and left a legacy of “firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights”.

Pedro Guerra, who was out celebrating the news of the leader’s death, said: “I am not here to celebrate a man’s death, but I am here to celebrate the beginning of the crumbling down of a tyranny that has oppressed my people”.

The next morning, Verdugo went to Versailles, a Cuban restaurant in Miami, to celebrate with the crowd who gathered there.

Surely Castro would have never made it to enter the fictional retirement home of Latin American dictators who lost power after falling out of favour with the U.S., depicted in Garcia Marques’ masterpiece The Autumn of the Patriarch. No Castro, no anybody, when Cuba is free. Gays were herded into camps for “re-education”. “No mention of thousands he killed & imprisoned”, Rubio said on Twitter. After the Soviet Union vanished, Cuba’s economy collapsed. For many years, their threat alone was enough to sink any attempts to bridge divides.

Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa predicts Fidel Castro’s death will change the face of Cuba.

“I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away”, Trudeau said. “Sadly, much work remains to secure the freedom of the Cuban people”.

“For me, it’s my mother first, my children, my father, then Fidel”, father-of-five Rafael Urbay, 60, said as he manned a government photo and printing store in downtown Havana, remembering his early years spent on a remote island off the mainland with no drinking water.

In 2008, Carter and his wife, who is Cuban, filed a lawsuit against then-President George W. Bush for his policy limiting Cubans from returning to their country a couple of times every three years.

“All of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro regime were done through executive order, which means the next president can reverse them”, Trump said during a Miami rally in September.

US cruise ships are docking in Havana, American flights are landing in Cuba and USA hotels are booking guests.

The Florida senator clarified he never said he is against “all changes to Cuba policy”.