Trump and Obama comment on the death of Castro
"Maximo Lider" Fidel Castro is dead. Critical voices were also mixed between numerous evaluations of the revolutionary leader. Above all Donald Trump made clear what he thought of the late ex-president of Cuba.
The future US president denounced Castro as "a brutal dictator who suppressed his own people for almost six decades." Castro left behind a legacy of "shooting commands, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the failure of fundamental human rights."
Cuba remains "a totalitarian island," but he hopes that Castro's death will lead the way into a future "in which the wonderful Cuban people can finally live in the freedom it deserves so much." His government will do its utmost to contribute to this goal, said Trump.
He pointed out that "discord and deep political differences of opinion" had shaped the relationship between the two states for almost six decades. He had worked hard to "leave the past behind us," said Obama, who had visited the Caribbean state in March as the first US presidency for almost 90 years.
The Cubans "will remember the past in the coming days and also look into the future". They need to know that they have "a friend and partner in America", said the outgoing US president.
Castro had died in the late Friday evening at the age of 90 in Havana. The Cuban leadership called for a nine-day state sentence. The mourning will last until Sunday, 4 December, the State Council said. During this time "all public activities and events" would be suspended, they said. On December 4, Castro was then buried.
The future US president denounced Castro as "a brutal dictator who suppressed his own people for almost six decades." Castro left behind a legacy of "shooting commands, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the failure of fundamental human rights."
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Fidel Castro in a speech in Geneva in 1998. |
Conciliar tones of Obama
Earlier, on the occasion of Castro's death, US President Barack Obama symbolically handed the Cuban people the "hand of friendship". The story will show and judge the "enormous impact this individual person has had on the people and the world around him," Obama said.He pointed out that "discord and deep political differences of opinion" had shaped the relationship between the two states for almost six decades. He had worked hard to "leave the past behind us," said Obama, who had visited the Caribbean state in March as the first US presidency for almost 90 years.
The Cubans "will remember the past in the coming days and also look into the future". They need to know that they have "a friend and partner in America", said the outgoing US president.
Castro had died in the late Friday evening at the age of 90 in Havana. The Cuban leadership called for a nine-day state sentence. The mourning will last until Sunday, 4 December, the State Council said. During this time "all public activities and events" would be suspended, they said. On December 4, Castro was then buried.
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