Fidel Castro, Cuban leader, dead at 90

By Kevin Sullivan and J.y. Smith
Updated November 26 2016 - 7:22pm, first published 5:14pm
Cuban President Fidel Castro gives a speech in Havana in 2004. Photo: Getty Images
Cuban President Fidel Castro gives a speech in Havana in 2004. Photo: Getty Images

Fidel Castro, whose Cuban revolution turned his Caribbean island into a potent symbol of the world's greatest ideological and economic divides of the 20th century, has died, Cuban state media announced early Saturday. He was 90.

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