Mexican who helped Castro launch his revolution mourns his death

“The whole word will remember this man”, said reveler Duncy Fajardo near the iconic National Hotel that hosted Ernest Hemingway and Frank Sinatra, and even known mobsters, before Castro’s 1959 revolution led to its nationalization.

“I think everybody who lives here is happy, today”, said Fausto Cruz, owner of Station 33 bar in Hazleton. “Because if this is a real statement from the PM of Canada, it is shameful and embarrassing”.

At a Miami rally in September, Trump said he would roll back Obama’s Cuban policy reforms unless Cuban leaders allowed religious freedom and freed political prisoners.

“As I told you, I documented 18,000 political assassinations and that’s but a fraction of the murders he’s committed to maintain himself in power”, said Fowler. The “Island of Freedom” was supposed to pay the Soviet Union back in kind for its oil, machinery and pretty much everything else Cuba couldn’t buy closer to home because of the US embargo.

“The question now is what human rights will look like in a future Cuba”, Erika Guevara-Rosas, the Americas director for Amnesty International, said Saturday.

“President Castro identified with our struggle against apartheid”.

And in Venezuela, until recently Cuba’s biggest financial backer and perhaps its closest ally, President Nicolas Maduro called Fidel Castro “a legend”.

He concluded, “I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba”.

For soccer great Diego Maradona, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro was more than a friend and fellow Latin American legend, he was “a second father”.

There was no heightened military or police presence to mark the passing of the epochal revolutionary leader, and at Havana University, Castro’s alma mater, hundreds of students gathered to wave huge Cuban flags and shout “Viva Fidel and Viva Raul”. In his weekly television show Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa spoke of Castro’s “dignity”.

“India mourns the loss of a great friend”, Modi said on Twitter. – October 15, 1976, addressing more than 1 million mourners in Havana the week after the terrorist bombing of Cuban airliner killed 73 people.

President Barack Obama on Saturday said the United States is extending “a hand of friendship to the Cuban people” following the death of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

Naturally, he palled around and found common cause with other brutual thugs and terrorists of the 20th century, including arch terrorist Yasser Arafat.

Russian President Vladimir Putin also praised Castro as a symbol of an era. This morning a family member came into his bedroom and broke the news to him that Castro had died.

“Fidel Castro was a honest and reliable friend of Russian Federation”.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev hailed Castro for “strengthening” his island nation.