Obama: Cubans have ‘friend and partner’ in the US

Argentinean football star, Diego Maradona, on Saturday mourned the death of Cuban revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, saying he “was like a second father”. Trump tweeted on the news of the 90-year-old’s death.

World football, therefore, must thank Castro, a devout baseball fan, for saving one of the greatest players of all time. “We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader”.

He said he doesn’t anticipate that things will change under Fidel’s brother, Raul, who he described as part of the same group that took power more than 50 years ago.

Across a hushed capital, dozens of Cubans said they felt genuine pain at the death of Fidel Castro, whose words and image had filled schoolbooks, airwaves and front pages since before many were born.

In 1959, Castro along with a small band of revolutionaries overthrew an unpopular dictator Fulgencio Batista and rode their jeeps and tanks into Cuba’s capital Havana. Indeed, Obama extended his condolences to Castro’s family.

Separate memorial services have been scheduled for Tuesday and later in the week in Cuba for Castro, and some world leaders and celebrities were expected to attend. He formally resigned two years later. “Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights”, Trump said.

“Dear people of Cuba”, Raúl began.

“The day that the people, both inside the island and out, have waited for has arrived: A tyrant is dead and a new beginning can dawn on the last remaining communist bastion of the Western hemisphere”, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen said in statement early Saturday.

For a small country under the shadow and threat of the U.S., the support that the Cuban government led for long by Fidel and more recently by Raul has given to many Third World countries, is simply awesome. “No mention of thousands he killed & imprisoned”, Rubio said on Twitter.

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Trump had threatened to undo efforts by President Barack Obama to bring the U.S. and Cuba closer together, slamming the recent agreement between the two countries for better relations. The embargo can’t be lifted without congressional approval, but Obama has used his executive powers to relax trade and travel restrictions.

Almost 40 years later, he began a rapprochement that was eventually to enable the Vatican to broker a historic resumption of ties between Cuba and the United States. “No one should rule anywhere near as long as Fidel Castro did”.

“Comrade Castro will live forever”, said Chinese President Xi Jinping in a message read on television. “Despite President Obama’s collaboration and betrayal of America’s longstanding mission to promote freedom, the American people continue their strong solidarity with the Cuban people in their struggle for free elections, human rights”. His younger brother, President Raul Castro, announced the news shortly after midnight (0500 GMT) but gave no details of the cause of death.

“This was a very complicated year since the size of aid from the USSR, which had been agreed on and even formalized in documents, did not receive support in the form of facts that would prove we were observing all of our commitments”, Dzasokhov said.

Klobuchar said she hopes Trump takes a new look at the issue after he’s sworn in on January 20. “Freedom and democracy are long overdue in Cuba”, he said in a statement. “It’s time to change it”.