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posted by takyon on Saturday November 26 2016, @12:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the west-triumphs dept.

Fidel Castro's death has been announced by Cuban state television:

Cuba's former president Fidel Castro, one of the world's longest-serving and most iconic leaders, has died aged 90. His younger brother and successor as president Raul Castro announced the news on state television.

Castro toppled the government in 1959, introducing a Communist revolution. He defied the US for decades, surviving many assassination plots. His supporters said he had given Cuba back to the people. Critics saw him as a dictator.

Ashen and grave, President Castro told the nation in an unexpected late night broadcast on state television that Fidel Castro had died and would be cremated later on Saturday. "The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 hours this evening (03:29 GMT Saturday)," he said. "Towards victory, always!" he added, using a revolutionary slogan. A period of official mourning has been declared on the island until 4 December, when his ashes will be laid to rest in the south-eastern city of Santiago.

Also at Bloomberg (world leaders react), Washington Post, NYT, The Guardian, CNN, NPR, WSJ, PBS, and Reuters. Editorials at the Miami Herald and Daily Beast.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Sulla on Saturday November 26 2016, @07:54PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Saturday November 26 2016, @07:54PM (#433368) Journal

    Why not have qualms with both? Castro will go to hell for his crimes, and Bush will most likely do the same (presuming hell does exist). Both tyrants, both condoned murder and torture, and both oppressed for the sake of oppression.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:26AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:26AM (#433556) Journal

    It does, though not the way any religion suspects, although I would say the less-dogmatic Buddhists are least wrong on this (that is, there's no geometric stacking of hells one after another with a 20x multiplier on residence time, etc). My girlfriend's been there, and not as a "tourist" during an NDE either.

    The good news is, as far as I can tell it appears to be a self-inflicted and self-correcting process: there are no more illusions in the clear light of death, and one's evils are reflected back on them utterly unfiltered in a perfect one-to-one ratio. This is of course incredibly painful, and people perceive it mostly the way their cultures tell them to. My girlfriend was a Buddhist at the time, for example, so she actually met up with Enma Daiou and got sentenced to one of the traditional Buddhist hells -- or so she thought, because this is what she had been trained to expect.

    It's really just your own mind trying to make sense of what's happening to you through the only lens it has.

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