Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks to South African President Nelson Mandela at the World Trade Organization in Geneva in 1998. There, in the Cuban capital in 1991, Mandela lavished his host, Fidel Castro, with appreciation. In 1988, for instance, a deployment of 36,000 Cuban troops played a decisive role in beating back U.S.-supported South African apartheid-era forces stationed in Angola. Fidel Castro, the Cuban dictator who led the country's communist revolution in the late 1950s, died on Nov. 25. Once reaching the podium, it was several minutes before Castro could begin his address, as the legislature thundered with cheers of “Cuba, Cuba,” and “Fidel, Fidel.”Read More:Cuba faces renewed tensions with U.S., but without Fidel Castro, its field marshalTrudeau called Castro a ‘remarkable leader.’ Twitter imagined what he would say about Stalin.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2016 13:49 UTC