Fidel Castro
(Evelyn Rupert, The Hill) – Cuban leader Fidel Castro has died at age 90, his brother Raul announced on state television in the early morning hours Saturday.
Raul Castro made a brief TV statement around 12:30 a.m. Eastern.
“It is with great pain I come to inform our country, friends of our America, and the world that today, Nov. 25, 2016, at 10:29 p.m., the commander in chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, died,” he said.
Castro’s funeral will be Dec. 4 in Santiago, Cuba, after a nine-day mourning period and a tour of his ashes through the island country, according to multiple reports.
