Cubans descend on Revolution Square in Havana to commemorate Fidel Castro, the communist guerilla leader who led a revolution in 1959 and ruled the island for half a century. One of the first in line was Tania Jimenez, 53, a mathematician who arrived at 4 a.m. carrying a rose. “Fidel is everything to us, the soul of this country who gave everything, all his life,” Jimenez said in tears. A nine-story image of a young Castro joined the towering images of fallen guerrillas overlooking the massive square. Since his death on Friday night, state-run newspapers, television and radio have been running wall-to-wall tributes to Fidel, broadcasting non-stop footage of his speeches, interviews and foreign trips, interspersed with adulatory remembrances by prominent Cubans.

Source: thestar November 28, 2016 19:45 UTC