Miami’s joyous Cubans hope for change with Castro’s death

Many years from now, I wonder how the Left will describe North Korea’s Kim Jong-un when he passes away because from what we saw when Cuba’s Fidel Castro died, you’d think he was Mother Theresa.

The revelry has not stopped since. “I consider him to be a friend and a supporter of mine”, he said. The people who were hurt by Castro will never recover.

“Now that Fidel Castro is not on the earth it doesn’t mean we are going to start a new era, a new stage in which Fidel is not physically here in Cuba”. Castro advised Cubans not to give in to the US.

Streets that had been closed because of the festive crowd reopened Sunday as authorities tried to restore a semblance of normality.

The group was founded in 2003 after Fidel Castro’s regime imprisoned 75 dissidents who were the women’s husbands or sons.

Castro ruled Cuba from 1959 until he handed power to Raul Castro in 2006 due to poor health. He learned the language of the exile community and promised to fight for a free Cuba – while offering few specifics.

Castro’s funeral is expected to last up to nine days. In Havana a year ago, Obama told the Cuban people that he came “to bury the last remnants of the Cold War in the Americas”.

The place was bursting with people Saturday night. But it also adds to the uncertainty ahead with the transition from an Obama to a Trump administration. But she noted that the USA is allowing commercial aircraft to do business with a repressive Cuban government and Cuban military. On Saturday, while Obama offered condolences to Castro’s family and said the United States extends “a hand of friendship to the Cuban people”, Trump tweeted: “Fidel Castro is dead!”. “Fidel was always first in everything, fighting for the downtrodden and the poor”, she said.

The Ladies in White dissident group chose to avoid creating tensions this week.

“Fidel Castro has died”.

Conway said the release of political prisoners held in Cuba would be a key factor in future relations. Emilio Estefan, husband of singing star Gloria Estefan, said Cuba now faces “a new dawn with a new sun full of hope”.

Though Cubans suffered under a decadeslong embargo imposed by the United States, under the Castro mantra “socialism or death” the country of 11 million became renowned for high education standards and world-class doctors.

Politicians also lined up to mark the occasion. “It’s a celebration not of his death, but a celebration of the end of this image of pain and suffering”.

“They are celebrating but in a very peaceful way”, Fallat said of the demonstrators. “Sadly, much work remains to secure the freedom of the Cuban people”.

The death of Comrade Fidel Castro is a great loss to the Cuban and Latin American people.

During the primaries, Trump was the only Republican candidate to support President Barack Obama’s opening toward Cuba, but in his quest for votes in Florida in the general election campaign, he promised that he would overturn the executive action measures taken by Obama if the Castro regime did not restore freedoms on the island.