After years of dealing with failing health, Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban revolution who steered the country through decades of a US economic blockade, has died, state media report.
Castro died in Havana on Friday at 7pm local time, Cuban television said. His death was confirmed by his brother Raul, who took the reins after Fidel stepped down.Castro led the country from 1959 to 2008, when his deteriorating health forced him into retirement. In his last years, he mostly stayed out of the public eye, only occasionally providing commentary on events in Cuba.

His passing marks the end of an era for many. Castro was the last remaining leader from the group of old school communist leaders including Chinese Mao Zedong, Korean Kim Il-sung and Soviets Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.

Dictator or national hero, Castro was called many things along the way, as he rose from being a student activist protesting against oppressive regimes to becoming the president of Cuba.

In February 1959, the Cuban Revolution brought Castro to power as the prime minister. He was backed by the so-called 26th of July Movement, and Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. Together, they managed to oust US-backed President Batista.

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Rip castro

We need just one Fidel Castro in Nigeria, one who wouldn't be scared of massive genocide (in the few millions, because all the present crop of politicians need to go, from grassroots to the top), to rule us for a few decades and steer us away from this systemic corruption and "freaking black man backwardness"

Castro body is going to be cremated as he wished