Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro Dies at 90. Almost immediately after the official announcement, a huge crowd gathered in front of the Cuban restaurant Versailles, in Little Havana to celebrate the official end of a terrible era.
Champagne popping in front of Versailles in Little Havana #FidelCastro#Cubapic.twitter.com/23Ed8dnn9V
— Danny Rivero (@TooMuchMe) November 26, 2016
Fidel Castro is dead and the people gathered here in Little Havana in Miami are celebrating. #WEBNpic.twitter.com/aveuyMjtw7
— Javier Rodriguez (@WEBNtvRodriguez) November 26, 2016
Starting to be a real crowd outside Versailles in Little Havana, cars stopping to honk and cheer “Cuba Libre!” (And “el viejo murió!”) pic.twitter.com/pzBvC4fdNV
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) November 26, 2016
Calle ocho is closed entirely from the crowd in front of @VersaillesMiami bc #FidelCastro‘s death @MiamiHeraldpic.twitter.com/oMxlIbU15f
— Carlos Frías (@Carlos_Frias) November 26, 2016
Cars celebrating as they drive by Versailles in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood pic.twitter.com/Z79QEOVAIn
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) November 26, 2016
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz , commonly known as Fidel Castro, was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms implemented throughout society.