Fidel Castro, the last icon of Communists world over, dies at 90
"The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 hours this evening (03:29 GMT Saturday)," President Raul Castro has been quoted as saying. .
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost 50 years before relinquishing power owing to a surgery due to intestinal bleeding.
His brother Raul, took over from him in 2008.
Castro made his final speech to Cuba's Congress in April this year, telling the assembled politicians that he would die soon but that the revolution's ideals would live on.
Castro's long rule defied the hostile foreign policy of of ten US Presidents, while he survived a staggering number assassination attempts and steered the island nation through a tumultuous period that witnessed crippling embargoes imposed by America.
Castro’s reign was also marked by the CIA.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that looked like nearing a nuclear war.
His supporters said he had given Cuba back to the people, transforming it from a playground of America into a symbol of resistance, but critics accused him of suppressing opposition.
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