Juanita Castro, Fidel Castro’s Sister, Will Not Attend Funeral

A longtime critic of the Castro regime is offering no words of condolence on the death of Fidel Castro.

Still Huckabee wasn’t the only political pundit to draw connections between Kaepernick and Castro on Saturday. She says Castro’s death leaves her numb.

HAVANA (AP) – Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans faced their first day without the leader who steered their island to both greater social equality and years of economic ruin.

Cuban leader Raul Castro said his brother died late on Friday, exactly 60 years since Fidel and a band of armed comrades left from the port of Tuxpan on Mexico’s Gulf coast.

Leaders in the Four-State said this could be what Cuba needs to move forward.

In Miami – home to the largest concentration of Cuban-Americans in the United States – the news spread quickly and with fervor.

The news was nearly unbelievable, said Oscar Miro, a 22-year-old who came to the United States 10 years ago.

One of the world’s longest-serving rulers and modern history’s most singular characters, Castro defied 11 United States administrations and hundreds of assassination attempts.

Castro shared a friendship with Trudeau’s late-father and then prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, with Castro serving as an honorary pallbearer at Pierre’s funeral.

Morales’ mother left after Castro assumed power; her family had their property taken by the government, Morales said.

Fidel and Cuban President Raul Castro were among their parents’ seven offspring.

“Fidel was an intellectual; he was a thinker”, Saney said.

“I hope to see the country now”.

“I’m happy here”, he says, “there will be a lot of revolts in Cuba”.

But not all with a connection to Cuba have met news of Castro’s death with grief and mourning. “In Cuba nobody likes the Castro dynasty, who are a bunch of mafiosos”.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, another Republican Cuban-American who represents southern Florida’s 27th district where many Cuban exiles live, also hailed Castro’s death.

Somehow the word had gotten out, and the newly-established Cuban leader insisted on stopping the auto three times to shake hands with the crowds who lined the streets, often over the heads of the nervous police officers trying to keep him safe.

Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba.

Mr Abbott unleashed a scathing attack on the legacy of Cuban leader who died on Saturday.

“Some see him as kind of the senile grandfather figure who is best ignored, while others see him as the dictator that he was – a man who had thousands of people killed”.

Cubans in Miami, by instinct, knew where to find each other in that inevitable moment of surprise – Little Havana, the capital they created for their exiled community.

“Fidel’s ideas are still valid”, said Edgardo Casals, a 32-year-old sculptor. We were not allowed to take anything but the clothes on our backs. We have to find our own way.