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Cuba’s Fidel Castro is dead at 90 — global reaction is swift, impassioned and politically charged

Published: Nov 26, 2016 6:27 p.m. ET

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Castro ruled the Caribbean nation for a half-century after leading communist revolutionaries to victory in 1959

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Fidel Castro is seen in silhouette as he addresses an audience during an event with Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Havana's Revolution Square in February 2006.

From the streets to social media to U.S. partisan politics, reaction was swift late Friday and into Saturday to the news that Cuba’s Fidel Castro, one of the 20th century’s most iconic and controversial political figures, had died at the age of 90.

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More about the longtime Cuban leader, from a 2013 documentary film produced by PBS:

Don’t miss: How Raúl Castro broke with firebrand brother Fidel to jump start Cuba-U.S. relations

Plus: Why America shouldn’t put Cuba back under its thumb

And: Canada played a pivotal role in Obama’s history-making trip to Cuba

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