Castro introduced free university for Cubans, something Fonseca and his siblings, coming from a poor family, would never have attended otherwise, he said. “It was incredible, almost unbelievable,” said Julio Fonseca, president of the Association of Cuban Residents in Toronto. Fonseca, born and raised in Cuba, had gathered with about a dozen other association members at a Cuban cigar store in Yorkville, La Casa del Habano, to mourn and celebrate the former Cuban leader. “Fidel Castro is certainly far from being one of those.”“He divided his country, he starved his people while living like an emperor, he incarcerated, torture(d), executed . He recalled how, as the only female member of the foreign press, Castro “always shook my hand and kept my hand between his hands” while speaking to the rest of the press team.

Source: thestar November 27, 2016 01:48 UTC