Story highlights Fidel Castro was a throwback to a bygone era, writes Nic RobertsonRelations between US and Cuba improvingRaul Castro has said he will step down in 2018(CNN) Fidel Castro's death is the end of an era. He has gone not with a bang, as he arrived, nor with a whimper, but a simple fading away. Diplomatic relations with the US -- that 50 years ago had the world on the brink of nuclear war -- are on the mend. Cuban President Fidel Castro waves a flag during a visit on January 27, 2001 to the Havana neighborhood of San Jose de las Lajas. Obama's legacyA throwback to a bygone era of Communism that most of the world had forgotten, Cuba was less than 100 miles from the home of capitalism, America.

Source: CNN November 26, 2016 15:36 UTC