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Fidel Castro’s death – World reactions
The death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro prompted celebrations among the country’s exiles in Miami , but expressions of sorrow from several current af former world leaders.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday hailed Castro, who died aged 90 on Friday, for “strengthening” his island nation.
“Fidel stood up and strengthened his country during the harshest American blockade, when there was colossal pressure on him, and he still took his country out of this blockade to a path of independent development,” Interfax news agency quoted Gorbachev as saying.
“In the past years, even when Fidel Castro was not formally in power, his role in strengthening the country was huge.”
Gorbachev added that Castro would be remembered as a “prominent politician” who managed to leave a “deep mark in the history of mankind.”
Ties between Moscow and Havana suffered after the collapse of the USSR, as the massive flow of financial aid fr