Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader of revolution, dies at 90

26 November 2016 

Fidel Castro

I remember hearing his name as a kid in Liberia.  Cuba's former president Fidel Castro, one of the world's longest-serving, has died aged 90.

His younger brother and successor as president Raul Castro announced the news on state television.
Castro toppled the government in 1959, introducing a Communist revolution. He defied the US for decades, surviving many assassination plots.
His supporters said he had given Cuba back to the people. Critics saw him as a dictator.