{"id":49873,"date":"2016-11-26T01:54:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T05:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49873"},"modified":"2016-11-26T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T13:34:03","slug":"49873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49873","title":{"rendered":"Former Cuban President and Revolutionary Leader Fidel Castro Passes Away at 90 Announces Havana TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nFidel Castro, Cuba&#8217;s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, state TV has announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It provided no further details.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/FC6-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"fc6\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-49902\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century before handing over the powers to his brother Raul in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His supporters praised him as a man who had given Cuba back to the people. But his opponents accused him of brutally suppressing opposition.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Fidel Castro gave a rare speech on the final day of the country&#8217;s Communist Party congress.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged his advanced age but said Cuban communist concepts were still valid and the Cuban people &#8220;will be victorious&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:BBC<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton49873\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D49873&amp;text=Former%20Cuban%20President%20and%20Revolutionary%20Leader%20Fidel%20Castro%20Passes%20Away%20at%2090%20Announces%20Havana%20TV&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel Castro, Cuba&#8217;s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, state TV has announced. It provided no further details. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century before handing over the powers to his brother Raul in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49903,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49873\/revisions\/49903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}