From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
HAVANA, CUBA –Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has died. He was 90-years-old.
The announcement was made by current President Raul Castro who said on state television that his brother died at 10:29 p.m. on Friday. He ended the announcement with the revolutionary slogan, “Toward victory, always.”
Castro had brought Soviet-style communism to Cuba through a revolution that overthrew the Batista regime in 1959. An embargo by the United States essentially locked Cuba in a time capsule for over half a century. The unyielding commitment to socialism including stripping successful Cuban families of their wealth as they fled the country.
Even as President Barack Obama began the process of relaxing the embargo, Raul Castro remained defiant and critical on the United States.
The news of Castro’s death sent Cuban exiles in the U.S. into the streets in celebration. In Miami’s Little Havana, people honked horns and set off fireworks in hopes that his death is the first step toward change in the ancestral home.
10 Comments
Roger Humphries
And he thought it was hot in Cuba last summer
Ray Hubbard
and then the judgement.
Buster Joe Baker
He took a vibrant nation and turned into a ghetto.Yeah, communism is great.
Janice Gafnea Gallagher
Evil leader……
Hans Lemons
With a little luck his brother & gov thugs will hang from the light posts next.
Hans Lemons
With a little luck his brother & gov thugs will hang from the light posts next.
Betty Hadley
Thank God!
R Frank McKeown
He led a revolution against the evil rich people, then he had his brother fly to Spain to buy sausage. Typical leftist. Kinda like the global warming elitests…fly to conference in private jets, then ride to conference in limos and tell everyone its mankind’s fault…
Steven Leroy Whitaker
Bet he believes in God now
William Richard Wills
Hope the Cuban people can finally travel to see relatives in the USA and the other way too