Thousands file though memorial honoring Castro in Cuba

In comments made six years ago, Cuba’s foreign minister said the first communist Cuban delegation to the United Nations received support from Malcolm X and other black leaders and forged a lasting bond between “Cuban revolutionaries and the African-American progressive people”.

Dissidents who endured Fidel’s iron fisted rule kept a low profile, while the Ladies in White group cancelled a regular yesterday protest in what they said was a show of respect for those mourning Castro.

Ex-president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has mourned the death of Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro.

Trump’s tweet landed just as Cuba began its week-long farewell to the divisive Cold War icon.

Prominent Republicans have blasted Castro as a murderous tyrant since his death.

Some Cubans are anxious Trump will shut down the US-Cuban trade and travel ties that have begun to emerge in the past two years since Obama’s historic decision to end decades of Cold War hostility and open an embassy in Havana.

“Our priorities are the release of political prisoners, return of fugitives from American law, and also political and religious freedoms for all Cubans living in oppression”.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested pressure from both USA corporate interests and supporters of the detente would keep Trump from dramatically changing course. “He leaves us with a wealth of legacy and great vision to strive for self-reliance and well-being for the people of our country”, he further said.

“There is no one else in the world like Fidel”, Menendez said.

“I very much hope that we don’t see any USA government officials going to Fidel Castro’s funeral”.

Trump’s aides said nothing on Cuba has been decided. Castro’s younger brother, 85-year-old Raul Castro, took control in 2006, and later negotiated with Obama to restore diplomatic relations.

“We’ll see what will happen with the Trump administration”, said Alfredo Gonzalez, American Airlines’ director for the Caribbean. Such an approach, Flake wrote over the weekend, will hurt the Cuban people and make the US government “a convenient scapegoat for failed socialist policies”.

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have been bidding farewell to Castro, pledging allegiance to his socialist ideology and paying tribute before images of the leader as a young guerrilla gazing out over the country he would come to rule for almost a half century. Trump can erase almost all of Obama’s Cuba policies himself, since they were made by executive action and not an act of Congress.

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro outlasted 10 American presidential administrations and quite almost survived the Obama administration before dying Saturday at 90 – almost 58 years after his victory in the revolution that made Cuba the primary communist outpost in the West.