I remember that as a very young school boy hearing about Fidel Castro in a party in my diplomat-father’s house in New York in late 1959 after the Cuban revolution. There I heard that the US was thinking of suppressing the Cuban revolution, which had overthrown the Mafia- and US-backed Batista dictatorship. In April this year Fidel Castro gave a rare speech in the Communist Party Congress. Fidel Castro: A revolutionary who brought India and Cuba closerDespite the extreme hardships Fidel, Raoul and in the initial period Che advocated Cuban support to other freedom struggles. The flame of the Cuban revolution will never allow its heroes to fade away.

Source: Hindustan Times November 26, 2016 12:46 UTC