Former Cuban President, leader of the Communist revolution, Fidel Castro has died at age 90. Guerrilla revolutionary and communist idol, Fidel Castro was a holdout against history who turned tiny Cuba into a thorn in the paw of the mighty capitalist United States.


The former Cuban leader, who died aged 90 on Friday, said he would never retire from politics, but emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 drove him to hand power to Raul Castro, who ended his brother’s antagonistic approach to Washington, shocking the world in December 2014 in announcing a rapprochement with US President Barack Obama.