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26 Nov 2016

Fidel Castro: Cuban leader dies aged 90

Europe Editor and Presenter

Cuba has declared nine days of mourning for Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader seized power in Cuba 57 years ago and soon found his communist instincts in collision with his giant US neighbour. And while Barack Obama said today that America extended the hand of friendship to the Cuban people, President-elect Trump dismissed Castro as a “brutal dictator” .