Then-Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) and his brother Raul, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, chat in Havana, during the last meeting of the Cuban Parliament on December 23, 2003.
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In a city shaped by Cuban exiles who fled Fidel’s 1959 revolution the celebrations are not for the death of a person, but for the death of a symbol that represents the oppression, pain and suffering of the Cuban people.
“For us, he was like a father”.
“We have decided, as fighters of human rights groups, to respect the pain, which we don’t share”, said Berta Soler, the group’s co-founder and current leader of the opposition group.
“We chose to pause this week, to take a break from our protest activities, given that the country is in mourning”, she said.
The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is deeply saddened by the death of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, the former president of Cuba.
Priebus, Trump’s incoming chief of staff, said Trump would “absolutely” reverse Obama’s opening to Cuba unless there is “some movement” from the Cuban government.
Saavedra personifies how Castro, who is universally reviled in Miami, reshaped the city just as he influenced socialist revolutions across the Western Hemisphere.
There are no statues of Fidel Castro in Cuba. He said Wenski’s statement reflected the role of the Catholic Church in Miami as a mediator toward peace between the Cubans in Miami and those on the island.
President Raul Castro said his older brother’s remains would be cremated.
But Fidel Castro lived long enough to see a historic thaw between Cuba and the United States.
The shock victory of President-elect Donald Trump has cast uncertainty over Obama’s two years of moves to restore ties with Cuba.
She added: “He wants to make sure that when the United States of America, when he’s president, engages in any type of diplomatic relations or trade agreements … that we as America are being protected and we as America are getting something in return”.
State media say Cubans throughout the country will be invited to pay homage to Castro on Monday and Tuesday by signing a “solemn oath of complying with the concept of the revolution”.
“He achieved immortal historical achievements for the development of world socialism”. “We are closing one chapter in Cuban history”, Martinez said.
The president-elect eschewed the diplomat-speak of President Barack Obama, who offered his condolences to the Castro family in an anodyne statement.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described Castro as “a larger-than-life leader who served his people for nearly half a century”. “Here we have health care, education, many good things”. “Many people who were very wealthy and lost a lot of the wealth during the Cuban revolution have continued to hold that against the Cuban revolution rather than to look objectively at the gains that have been made”.
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But she noted that Castro’s almost half century in power was also characterized by “a ruthless suppression of freedom of expression”, including sometimes long prison terms for people who spoke out strongly against the Cuban government.
